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Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief / Robert A. Scott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 235 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520946200
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BT732 .M573 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Appealing to saints for miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.
Summary: In this work, Scott explores the realities of religious healing. He inquires into the power of relics, apparitions, and the transformative nature of sacred journeying and shines new light on the roles belief, hope, and emotion can play in healing.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BT732.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn646576238

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue -- Appealing to saints for miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.

In this work, Scott explores the realities of religious healing. He inquires into the power of relics, apparitions, and the transformative nature of sacred journeying and shines new light on the roles belief, hope, and emotion can play in healing.

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