Religious Healing in Boston: Body, Spirit, Community

edited by Susan Sered
May 15, 2003, and May 18, 2004

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Contents

Introduction: What Religion Teaches About Healing, and What Healing Teaches About Religion
Susan Sered

Body

The Body as Temple: Health and Healing in a Boston Adventist Church
Josh Burek

"Does It Work?" Holistic Healers and Assessing Breast Cancer Treatment
Barbara Potrata

Spirit

Diversity in the Law of Similars: Mainstream and Alternative Homeopaths in Massachusetts
Cornelia Cannon Holden

"Like a Flower in a Snowfield": Self-Healing in the Dahn Hak Community
Sharon Kivenko

Religious Practices of People With HIV/AIDS: Why Health Professionals Should Care
Dawn Dorland

Community

No Angels Here: The Closing of the Pine Street Inn Nurses Clinic, 1972-2003
Grace Elizabeth Moore

Healing Communities: Boston's Congregations and the Challenges of Healthful Living
Lowell W. Livezey

Healing Rituals and the Role of Fatima
Noor Kassamali

Resources

Religious and Spiritual Healing Resources in Greater Boston
Sharon Kivenko