Religion And Healing To Be Offered As New Online Course

Professor Robin Wright's new anthology, titled "Religion and Healing: Contemporary Perspectives", is now in preparation for a new online course "Religion and Healing" this coming Fall Semester 2013. The anthology, an e-text published by Kendall Hunt, presents a wide variety of healing traditions, and holistic in arguing for an integrative approach to health and healing.The modules of the anthology cover (1) Shamanic traditions of Amazonia, Tibet, and Nepal, Afro-American and Malaysian, and Core Shamanism; (2) Mayan and Taoist Healing principles, especially the concepts of "life-force;" (3) Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the Gyuschi; (4) Hindu Ayurvedic Medicine-its philosophical foundations, history, practice, and globalization; (5) Sufi traditions; (6) Charismatic Catholicism; (7) Naturopathy - various ways in which plants sustain health and nutrition, providing alternative treatments for cancer, for example, or pain; (8) Nature Religions as sources for "Healing the Planet," recovering destroyed ecosystems, re-empowering oppressed peoples, re-creating the broken link between Western society and natural habitats, and even offering global sacred narratives.