Miracle cures [electronic resource] : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief / Robert A. Scott.
Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 235 p.) : ill., mapISBN:- 9780520946200 (electronic bk.)
- 0520946200 (electronic bk.)
- 231.7/3 22
- BT732.5 .S34 2010eb
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.
Description based on 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.
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