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Recommended Reading in Religion and Healing

Recommendations for Further Reading

Religions, Medicines, and Healing:



Linda Barnes and Susan Sered, Religion and Healing in America (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Linda Barnes and Ines Talmantez, Teaching Religion and Healing (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Barry Clark, The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine (Snow Lion Publications 1995)

Thomas Csordas, The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (University of California Press, 1997)

Yeshi Donden, Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine (Snow Lion Press, 1986)

Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

Robbie Davis Floyd, Birth as an American Rite of Passage (University of California Press, 1993)

Robert Hahn, Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective (Yale University Press, 1996)

Ted Kaptchuck, The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine (McGraw Hill, 2000)

Richard Katz, Boiling Energy: Community and Healing Among the Kalahari Kung (Harvard University Press, 1993 (reprint)

Arthur Kleinman, The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (Basic Books, 1989)

Meredith McGuire, Ritual Healing in Suburban America (Rutgers University Press, 1988)