European
African American
Hispanic
East Asian
Native American
100
What type of historian is primarily concerned with this?
Folklorists
100
How do they regard illness?
The will of God, the malevolence of the devil, or punishment for sin.
100
What are the three main focuses of Hispanic religious beliefs?
Curanderismo and Spiritism Mexicans Espiritismo Puerto Ricans Santeria Cuban Americans
100
Name some methods of alternative medicine in East Asian culture.
Acupuncture, herbs
100
What are the three basic techniques?
Herbs and drugs, mechanical intervention, contact with the spirit realm.
200
What is the education level of people who practice European American Folk Medicine?
People with high literacy rates.
200
What is the central character known as?
The conjurer - a professional diviner, curer, agent finder, and general controller of the occult arts.
200
Vitalistic energy that is believed to flow along various meridian in the body is known as what?
Chi
200
Who are the three types of healers?
Herbalist, "ordinary" medicine man or woman, and the shaman.
300
What is their view towards biomedicine?
Hostility or indifference with glorification of folk healers.
300
What category of healer do spiritual advisors fall under?
Cultic generalists.
300
What is Curanderismo?
Curanderismo incorporates a belief in witchcraft. It has a large Native American focus, and European spiritism Illness has two classifications according to etiology. Natural ones that come from an imbalance in divine order and bewitchments performed by humans who invoke malevolent forces
300
Japanese American folk Medicine is based on Chinese medicine and religious healing within what two traditions?
Buddism and Shinto traditions
300
What is illness the result of?
Sorcery, taboo violation, the intrusion of a foreign object or spirit, or soul loss.
400
What are the main sectors included?
Southern Appalachian and Ozark herbal medicine and folk medical systems of the Mormons, Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites.
400
What is the purpose of healing?
Healing is a mechanism to underscore some message of the teaching and as evidence of the validity of their promising good times on the earth.
400
The Bible influenced Curanderismo in reference to the healing properties of what?
Animals, plants, oils, and wine, divine interventions, Christ’s healing ministry, and the concept of soul
400
Okada founded a World Messianity after he was visited by the Buddhist goddess of _______, Kannon
Mercy
400
What elements are included in Comanche Eagle Doctoring?
Christianity and peyotism.
500
What are the five historical layers?
Early magical practice, home remedies, rational/pseudo-rational medicine inspired by biomedicine, patent medicines, curing power by prayer or other religious techniques.
500
What is the main function of Independent Generalists?
To cure people who have been bewitched, and place a spell on their enemies as well as a wide range of other abilities.
500
What are six historical influences?
Judeo-Christian religious beliefs, symbols, rituals, early Arabic medicine and health practices with Greek humoral medicine, medieval and later European witchcrafts, Native American herbal lore and health practice, modern beliefs about spiritualism and psychic phenomena and scientific medicine
500
Encouraged to wear ohikari, a sacred focal point, around their necks which allows them to channel johrei a spiritual energy that replaces illness and misery with what?
Genuine health and happieness and purifies the world and soul
500
What is the main idea of Navajo Medicine?
Health oriented, seek to establish a harmonious relationship between humans, nature, and the supernatural realm.
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