Spiritual Transformation and Healing

Joan D. Koss-Chioino is professor emerita of anthropology at Arizona State University. Philip Hefner is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefacePart 3 Part I: Finding Our Way Through New TerrainChapter 4 Chapter 1: Exploring Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Fundamental IssuesChapter 5 Chapter 2: The Meaning of Spiritual TransformationChapter 6 Chapter 3: The Spirit of Spiritual Healing in the United StatesPart 7 Part II: Traditional and Indigenous Healing Systems: Anthropological PerspectivesChapter 8 Chapter 4: Spiritual Transformation and Radical Empathy in Ritual Healing and Therapeutic RelationshipsChapter 9 Chapter 5: Radical Empathy, Gender, and Shamanic Healing: Examples from PeruChapter 10 Chapter 6: Sustainable Faith? Reconfiguring Shamanic Healing in SiberiaChapter 11 Chapter 7: The Making of a Shaman: A Comparative Study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese Shaman InitiationPart 12 Part III: Spiritual Transformation and Healing from Religious PerspectivesChapter 13 Chapter 8: Spiritual Transformation and Healing: An Encounter with the SacredChapter 14 Chapter 9: Spiritual Transformation and Healing in Light of an Evolutionary TheologyChapter 15 Chapter 10: Personal Tranformation: Perspectives from Psychology and ChristianityChapter 16 Chapter 11: Spiritual Growth, Cognition, and Complexity: Faith as a Dynamic ProcessPart 17 Part IV: Neuroscientific Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation and HealingChapter 18 Chapter 12: The Neurobiology of Spiritual TransformationChapter 19 Chapter 13: Narrative in Holistic Healing: Empathy, Sympathy, and Simulation TheoryChapter 20 Chapter 14: Healing of the Self-in-Context: Memory, Plasticity, and Spiritual PracticePart 21 Part V: Clinical Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation and HealingChapter 22 Chapter 15: Spirituality, Spiritual Experiences, and Spiritual Transformations in the Face of HIVChapter 23 Chapter 16: Spiritual Engagement and Transformation in Cancer Patients: The Experience of the Patient, the Role of the Physician

This excellent book has it all - state of the art studies of spiritual transformation from medicine, anthropology, and neuroscience all ably reflected upon by philosophy and theology and made relevant to care and healing in the clinical situation. A wonderful contribution.