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Faith, Healing and "Ecstasy Deprivation": Secular Society in a New Age of Anxiety
Author(s) -
Bourguig Erika
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.2003.14.1.1
Subject(s) - ecstasy , confusion , appeal , limiting , perspective (graphical) , faith , anxiety , psychology , psychiatry , environmental ethics , social psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , political science , philosophy , art , law , mechanical engineering , visual arts , engineering
At a time when there is a health care crisis in the United States, there is widespread appeal to religious healing of various types. Adequate research in this area is limited.Terms such as "ecstasy" are used inconsistently, limiting the usefulness of the term, producing confusion rather than understanding. A cross‐cultural comparative perspective is offered.