UNIT I: FOUNDATIONS
this system views the body as a machine that can be fixed when broken.
biomedicine
this Traditional Chinese Medicine concept refers to vital life energy.
Qi
this culture emphasizes harmony with land, ancestors, and spiritual forces.
Diné (Navajo) worldview
this Brazilian healing system involves spirit possession and surgery-like interventions.
Spiritism
this religious movement centers women, nature, and goddess symbolism.
Goddess spirituality
this reading introduces key ideas about illness, healing, and how people experience sickness.
Hahn, Sickness and Healing
this TCM principle represents balance between opposing forces.
Yin and Yang
this concept refers to restoring balance and harmony in Navajo healing.
hózhó
this famous healer is associated with transnational spiritual healing in Brazil.
John of God
this author argues women need the goddess for empowerment and healing.
Carol P. Christ
this reading explores how illness affects family and identity.
Butler, What broke my Father's Heart?
this system organizes health through five elements like wood, fire, and water.
Five Phases
these are ceremonial practices used to restore spiritual balance.
healing ceremonies
this movement is known as the “Valley of the Dawn.”
Vale do Amanhecer
This modern pagan religion often focuses on witchcraft and nature-based healing.
Wicca
this anthropologist created the “Nacirema” to show how strange everyday medical rituals can look.
Horace Miner
In Ayurveda, these are the three bodily energies that determine health.
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha
In Navajo belief, illness is often caused by disruption of this.
harmony or balance with the universe
this concept describes how healing crosses physical and spiritual boundaries.
permeable self
this tradition sees illness as connected to patriarchy and social oppression.
feminist spirituality’s view of illness
these are structured, repeated practices in hospitals that help manage uncertainty and maintain authority.
biomedical rituals
this healing system from India focuses on balance between body, mind, and spirit.
Ayurveda
this refers to identity being deeply connected to land, tradition, and spirituality.
communal selfhood
this refers to healing practices blending religion, spirituality, and alternative medicine in Brazil.
Brazilian spirit healing
this term refers to groups whose healing systems are often ignored or undervalued by mainstream medicine.
marginalized healing traditions