Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief / Robert A. Scott.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 235 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: - 9780520946200
- 0520946200
- Spiritual healing
- Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Miracles
- Christianity
- Medicine -- Religious aspects
- Spirituality
- Spiritual Therapies
- Faith Healing
- Christianity
- Religion and Medicine
- Spirituality
- Guérison par la foi
- Guérison -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme
- Miracles
- Christianisme
- Médecine -- Aspect religieux
- Spiritualité
- miracles
- Christianity
- RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- Spirituality
- Medicine -- Religious aspects
- Christianity
- Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Miracles
- Spiritual healing
- Mirakel
- Helbrägdagörelse
- Medicin -- religiösa aspekter -- kristendom
- 231.7/3 22
- BT732.5 .S34 2010eb
- 2010 F-106
- WB 885
- online - EBSCO
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (ebsco)547365 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Appealing to saints for miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.
Print version record.
In this work, Scott explores the realities of religious healing. He inquires into the power of relics, apparitions, and the transformative nature of sacred journeying and shines new light on the roles belief, hope, and emotion can play in healing.

