Del 19 i serien KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society

Sign or Symptom?

Exceptional Corporeal Phenomena in Religion and Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvTine van Osselaer,Henk De Smaele,Kaat Wils

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Described as 'the hand of God', as 'pathological' or even as 'a clever trick', exceptional corporeal phenomena such as miraculous cures, stigmata, and incorrupt corpses have triggered heated debates in the past. Depending on their definition as either 'supernatural', 'psycho-somatic' or 'fraudulent', different authorities have sought to explain these enigmatic occurrences by stimulating inquiries and claiming jurisdiction over them. As a consequence, separate ecclesiastic and medical forms of expertise emerged on these issues in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This incommensurability has since echoed in historical analyses of paranormal events. In this book the emphasis is not placed solely on the debates within one or the other epistemological system (science or religion), but also on the crossovers and collaborations between them. Religion and science developed through a process of interaction. A changing religious climate and new religious currents provided new cases for study. Religious phenomena inspired new medical approaches such as the healing power of faith.New medical findings could be adopted to oppose new messiahs and medical imagery came to inspire the campaigns of opponents of aberrant of religious currents. Sign or Symptom? explores how the evolutions within religion and science influenced each other, a productive interaction that has been hidden from view until now. Contributors Ellen Amster (McMaster University), Nicole Edelman (Universite de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre), Maria Heidegger (Universitat Innsbruck), Mary Heimann (Cardiff University), Paula Kane (University of Pittsburgh), Sofie Lachapelle (University of Guelph), Tiago Pires Marques (Universidade de Coimbra), Tine Van Osselaer (Universiteit Antwerpen)

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-06-12
Mått169 x 238 x 15 mm
Vikt410 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieKADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society
Antal sidor256
FörlagLeuven University Press
ISBN9789462701076

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IntroductionTine Van Osselaer The Devil in the Madhouse. On the Treatment of Religious Pathologies in Early Psychiatry, Tyrol, 1830-1850Maria HeideggerGustave Boissarie, Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud. Three Doctors’ Responses to Some Unusual Bodily Phenomena: Convergences and Divergences (in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries)Nicole EdelmanProphecies of Pilgrimage. The Rise and Fall of Marie Bergadieu, the Ecstatic of FontetSofie LachapelleMedical and Mystical Opinion in British Catholicism. The Contentious Case of Teresa HigginsonMary HeimannDisenchanted America. Accounting for the Lack of Extraordinary Mystical Phenomena in Catholic AmericaPaula KaneThe Mad Saint as Healer. The Islamic Majnun in al-Kattani’s Salwat al-Anfas and in French Colonial Medicine and SociologyEllen J. AmsterExperiencing Religion and Medicine. Marian Apparition and Victim Souls in Portugal, 1910-1950Tiago Pires MarquesA Question of Competence and Authority. Lay Views on the Medical Examinations of the Marian Apparition Series in 1930s BelgiumTine Van OsselaerBibliography Index Contributors Colophon

Skillnaden mellan vetenskapligt och religiöst grundade epistemologier under 1800- och 1900-talen har diskuterats i vetenskapshistoriska framställningar och då inte sällan överbetonats. Boken Sign or Symptom? visar att denna tendens till tudelning av de två epistemologiska systemen är överdriven. Det tycks snarast som att de kompletterade varandra än utgjorde varandras motpoler. De exceptionella kroppsliga fenomen som står i centrum i antologin utgör ett utomordentligt väl lämpat – och spännande – undersökningsområde för att få syn på detta. Antologins huvudtitel är således retorisk. Under den epok som bokens bidrag behandlar rörde det sig inte om en motsättning mellan religion och medicin – om tecken eller symtom – utan om att en religiös neuros kunde uppfattas som både och, det vill säga både som ett tecken på en religiös erfarenhet och som ettsymtom på en medicinskt förklarlig åkomma.Alexander Maurits, Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift 2020