Spiritual Transformation and Healing

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 Part I: Finding Our Way Through New Terrain Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Exploring Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Fundamental Issues Chapter 5 Chapter 2: The Meaning of Spiritual Transformation Chapter 6 Chapter 3: The Spirit of Spiritual Healing in the United States Part 7 Part II: Traditional and Indigenous Healing Systems: Anthropological Perspectives Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Spiritual Transformation and Radical Empathy in Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Relationships Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Radical Empathy, Gender, and Shamanic Healing: Examples from Peru Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Sustainable Faith? Reconfiguring Shamanic Healing in Siberia Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The Making of a Shaman: A Comparative Study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese Shaman Initiation Part 12 Part III: Spiritual Transformation and Healing from Religious Perspectives Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Spiritual Transformation and Healing: An Encounter with the Sacred Chapter 14 Chapter 9: Spiritual Transformation and Healing in Light of an Evolutionary Theology Chapter 15 Chapter 10: Personal Tranformation: Perspectives from Psychology and Christianity Chapter 16 Chapter 11: Spiritual Growth, Cognition, and Complexity: Faith as a Dynamic Process Part 17 Part IV: Neuroscientific Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation and Healing Chapter 18 Chapter 12: The Neurobiology of Spiritual Transformation Chapter 19 Chapter 13: Narrative in Holistic Healing: Empathy, Sympathy, and Simulation Theory Chapter 20 Chapter 14: Healing of the Self-in-Context: Memory, Plasticity, and Spiritual Practice Part 21 Part V: Clinical Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation and Healing Chapter 22 Chapter 15: Spirituality, Spiritual Experiences, and Spiritual Transformations in the Face of HIV Chapter 23 Chapter 16: Spiritual Engagement and Transformation in Cancer Patients: The Experience of the Patient, the Role of the Physician

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.

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. -- Don Browning, University of Chicago, author of Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies The book that Joan Koss-Chioino and Phillip Hefner put together does a remarkable job of addressing critical questions...This book showcases well how multidisciplinarity can be a critical vehicle. Ethos - Journal Of The Society For Psychological Athropology, September 2008 "A deep-seated concern with the possibility of personal transformation is apparent in any reading of human history. In recent years this concern has taken the form of an interest in "spirituality" and attempts to define this phenomenon in a way permitting its empirical investigation, accelerated with the advent of neuro-imaging and neuroscience. This volume is a stimulating exploration of the processes involved in spiritual transformation, in healers as well as help-seekers." -- Eugene B. Brody, and Mental Disease, Editor in Chief, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease