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LEADER: 02675cam a2200349 a 4500
001 2008016908
003 DLC
005 20090901092911.0
008 080414s2008 ctub b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008016908
015 $aGBA882548$2bnb
016 7 $a014656238$2Uk
020 $a9780275993757 (alk. paper)
020 $a0275993752 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn226304676
035 $a(OCoLC)226304676$z(OCoLC)221153952
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aBL65.M4$bF36 2008
082 00 $a201/.66108996073$222
245 00 $aFaith, health, and healing in African American life /$cedited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem and Emilie M. Townes.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger,$c2008.
300 $axx, 207 p. :$bmap ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aReligion, health and healing,$x1556-262X
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index.
505 2 $aAncestral songs -- Natural/supernatural : African American hoodoo narratives of sickness and healing / Yvonne Chireau -- Holistic health and healing : "environmental racism and ecological justice" / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Health and healing across the diaspora -- Bodies in time and the healing of spaces : religion, temporalities, and health / Charles H. Long -- Spiritual illness and healing : "if the Lord wills" / Arvilla Payne-Jackson -- The arts of ritual and practice -- The marking of the body, memory, and the meaning of suffering in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata / Carolyn M. Jones -- Just awailing and aweeping : grief, lament, and hope as we face the end of life / Emilie M. Townes -- Honoring the body : ritual of breath and breathing / C. S'thembile West -- Analyzing social realities -- The destruction of Aunt Sster's house : faith, health, and healing in the African American community / Terri Baltimore and Mindy Thompson Fullilove -- The unspoken, the spoken, and affirmed : meanings of healing, same gender-loving African Americans, and Black churches / Linda L. Barnes -- Finding/making wellness -- "Seeking help for the body in the well being of the soul" / Rosemary Gooden -- Too old for the club, but always at home in the club : health, spirituality, and social support among adult Black gay men in Oakland's Cable Reef / Mark Wilson -- Spiritual wellness in the lives of African American women / Stephanie Y. Mitchem.
650 0 $aSpiritual healing$zUnited States.
650 0 $aHealing$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xReligion.
700 1 $aMitchem, Stephanie Y.,$d1950-
700 1 $aTownes, Emilie Maureen,$d1955-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008016908.html