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Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief / Robert A. Scott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 235 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520946200
  • 0520946200
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Miracle cures.DDC classification:
  • 231.7/3 22
LOC classification:
  • BT732.5 .S34 2010eb
NLM classification:
  • 2010 F-106
  • WB 885
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook 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.