Cosmos, Gods and Madmen : : Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine / / ed. by Roland Littlewood, Rebecca Lynch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong, Alice,; Dein, Simon,; Lange, Isabelle L.,; Littlewood, Roland,; Lynch, Rebecca,; Napier, A. David,; Orr, David M. R.,; Read, Ursula M.,; Reynolds, Ellie,; Reynolds, Rodney J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Littlewood, Roland,; Lynch, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and expl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Divinity, Disease, Distress
• Chapter 1 Why Animism Matters
• Chapter 2 Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure: Panama’s Black Christ
• Chapter 3 Madness and Miracles: Hoping for Healing in Rural Ghana
• Chapter 4 ‘Sakawa’ Rumours Occult Internet Fraud and Ghanaian Identity
• Chapter 5 To Heal the Body: The Body as Congregation among Post-Surgical Patients in Benin
• Chapter 6 Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio- Therapeutic Community
• Chapter 7 Religious Conversion and Madness: Contested Territory in the Peruvian Andes
• Chapter 8 Cosmologies of Fear: The Medicalization of Anxiety in Contemporary Britain
• Chapter 9 Functionalists and Zombis: Sorcery as Spandrel and Social Rescue
• Chapter 10 Religion and Psychosis: A Common Evolutionary Trajectory?
• Index