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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Healing Practices"”.
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Navigating Pain: Women's Healing Practices in a Hindu Temple
… dissertation is an ethnographic study of a Hindu healing temple in North India, popular for treating psychological ailments that manifest as spirit afflictions. Religious healing centers constitute the single most popular pathway of mental health care for Indian women. These folk sites, based on …
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The influence of traditional healing practices on anti-retroviral treatment adherence in Vhembe District, South Africa
… was to investigate the influence of traditional healing practices on anti-retroviral treatment adherence in Vhembe District. This qualitative study used an explorative design to envisage the aim. A cross-sectional snowball sample was used to draw a sample of 9 participants from the 4 …
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Deviant Healing Practices within Contemporary Religious Movements in Ṱhohoyanḓou, Limpopo: Towards a Post-Colonial African Practical Theology Perspective
… i) the researcher defined and explained deviant healing practices within contemporary religious movements in Ṱhohoyanḓou from a Practical Theology perspective and thereby probed consequent incidents of spiritual abuse; ii), in addition the researcher also appraised the implications and challenges …
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An Analysis of Current Healing Practices Based on Selected Mega-Churches in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province
Healing practices and health related rituals play a vital role in most religious groups including African Traditional Religion, Christianity, Islamic and Hinduism. This phenomenon of healing has been a challenge to religious institutions as well as African based churches. This study examined and …
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Food as helper, food as healer: How Cree Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices and the implications for Indigenous food sovereignty
… Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices. Using metaphor to make meaning of the Elder stories, this research articulates the role of food in Cree culture: through feeding oneself, one’s ancestors, and one’s community. The Elders revealed the rich depth of Cree food …
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Exploring how indigenous healing practices and a western treatment model “seeking safety” can co-exist in assisting indigenous peoples to heal from trauma and addiction
… to culture, land, community, and spiritual practices is a pathway to healing trauma and SUD in Indigenous peoples. The purpose of this study was to explore whether the blending of Indigenous healing practices (IHP) and a mainstream treatment model, Seeking Safety (SS), resulted in a …
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Sickness experience and language : aspects of Tongan and Western accounting
In this study of Tongan healing practices, the author has chosen not simply to record participants’ roles or medicinal preparations but rather, the concern of this study is to understand the ‘doing’ of sickness as a social practice. Two main sociological techniques have been applied. Firstly, a …
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"Quiero Sentirme Libre": A Testimonio Study Exploring the Healing Practices of Latina Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with Current or Former Undocumented Status, and their Perspectives of Culturally-specific Counseling Practices through a Mujerista Psychology Lens
North Carolina State University Theses Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development.
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"We're all individuals": postmodernity and alternative health practices in Northern England
… the use and practice of crystal and spiritual healing - therapies located on the fringe of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - and what these 'represent' in the context of a profound socio-cultural transformation, characterised by the shift in Western societies from modernity to …
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Codes of conduct for Indigenous-inspired spa and wellness tourism
… global tourism industry currently provides best practices guidance and certification possibilities for ecotourism, green spas, and Indigenous tourism, no codes of conduct exist for spas operations that aim to sustainably integrate Indigenous-inspired healing modalities into their menu of …
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Traditional healing in contemporary South Africa : perspective from traditional health practitioners in Vhembe District (Limpopo).
… Traditional Health Practitioners and their practices in the modem society of Vhembe District of the Limpopo Province following democratic changes that came with passing of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22 of 2007). The study utilised anthropological qualitative research …
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The Soothsayers (Bambuki) and the Christian prayer petitioners (Balombi) : a comparative and evaluative study of healing in the Luba Katanga area
… Congo in an attempt to compare and evaluate the healing system of co-existent groupings influenced by Bambuki and Balombi. This thesis seeks to compare and evaluate the theology and healing practices of Bambuki and Balombi in order to establish differences and similarities. The study contributes …
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An exploration of the cultural context and consequences of perceptions of illness and health-seeking behaviour of the Baloch
… and many socio-cultural phenomena and ritual healing practices were participated in and observed. It was observed that Baloch beliefs regarding health and illness revolve either on the concept of natural causes that are mainly due to humoral imbalance or supernatural causes: spirit possession, …
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Extending the Non-Contact Healing Paradigm to Explore Distant Mental Interaction Effects of Pagan Healing Spells
… little attention from psychological researchers. Healing is a key aspect of modern Pagan practice, yet it too receives little attention from those investigating distance healing practices. Given the growth of Paganism in recent years these omissions from the literature should be addressed by …
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Art in ethno-medicine : a case study of Juogi (Mysticism among the Luo people) in South Nyanza district of western Kenya
… medicine man or woman uses art to carry out the healing practices. We also look at how the qualification was manifested on the part of the practitioner. Special emphasis is made on language as an art, used by the patient and the doctor. Such components of art and language as myths, legends, folk …
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Jhakris and the urban Nepali conflict : chaos and confusion
… Western influenced urban areas made traditional healing practices illegal, resulting in violent arrests and beatings of Jhakris by police and occasional violent retaliation by Jhakris. This research sought to understand the roots of the intercultural conflict between the urban Nepali society and …
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The significance of music in the performance of svikwembu ritual practices amongst the Shangana Tsonga people of semi-urban southern Mozambique
… svikwembu. one of the most regularly used ritual practices amongst the Shangana Tsonga people of southern Mozambique, specifically in the Maputo province. The significance and importance of music is applied to all practitioners of svikwembu. Svikwembu includes trance (spirit possession), …
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Surviving and thriving: an integrated critical theory of chronic pain from stories of urban American Indians living with chronic pain
This study seeks to inform better care practices and policies for American Indians living off-reservation by discerning relationships between chronic pain and colonization and developing an integrated critical theory of chronic pain. Methods: This study uses a concurrent transformative mixed …
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Healing leaves
… the modern researcher with references to the healing arts in many passages that are incorporated into prose or poetic works. Because there was no clear separation of the genres into modern classifications, references to treatment of sicknesses of body, mind or spirit are woven into many …
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