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Seminar
SoSe 20: Healing across Religion and Medicine
Nasima Selim
Information for students
This seminar is offered as an online course.
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Online classroom: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/nasimaselim
The course introduces undergraduate students to the conceptual and praxis-specific diversity of healing at the intersection of religion and medicine. Healing is to be understood as more than the successful treatment of human diseases, mobilizing the perspectives from both the anthropology of religion and medical anthropology. Ethnographic case studies of the healing practices and cosmologies will bring in focus the alternative and complementary medicines, world religions such as Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism, as well as new religious/spiritual movements. The students will examine healing by following the epistemological abundance of the boundary-crossing phenomenon. They will read, analyze, and discuss anthropological research about healing conducted in countries of Africa, Asia, and Europe, in the form of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and selected audiovisual media. Individual presentations of case studies, group work in class, and written assignments are required for active participation. For graded participation, students will have to submit a written essay after the seminar is completed.
Digital format: Bi-weekly online sessions on Thursdays (16-18 hours) on WebEx Meeting and WebEx Training platforms. The students will attend a total of 8 online sessions and work on the written assignments in between.
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The course introduces undergraduate students to the conceptual and praxis-specific diversity of healing at the intersection of religion and medicine. Healing is to be understood as more than the successful treatment of human diseases, mobilizing the perspectives from both the anthropology of religion and medical anthropology. Ethnographic case studies of the healing practices and cosmologies will bring in focus the alternative and complementary medicines, world religions such as Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism, as well as new religious/spiritual movements. The students will examine healing by following the epistemological abundance of the boundary-crossing phenomenon. They will read, analyze, and discuss anthropological research about healing conducted in countries of Africa, Asia, and Europe, in the form of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and selected audiovisual media. Individual presentations of case studies, group work in class, and written assignments are required for active participation. For graded participation, students will have to submit a written essay after the seminar is completed.
Digital format: Bi-weekly online sessions on Thursdays (16-18 hours) on WebEx Meeting and WebEx Training platforms. The students will attend a total of 8 online sessions and work on the written assignments in between.
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Suggested reading
References:
Adams, Vincanne. 2001. The Sacred in the Scientific: Ambiguous Practices of Science in Tibetan Medicine. In: Cultural Anthropology 16 (4), 542-575.
Kirmayer, Laurence J. Toward a Medicine of the Imagination. In: New Literary History 37 (3), 583-605. close
Adams, Vincanne. 2001. The Sacred in the Scientific: Ambiguous Practices of Science in Tibetan Medicine. In: Cultural Anthropology 16 (4), 542-575.
Kirmayer, Laurence J. Toward a Medicine of the Imagination. In: New Literary History 37 (3), 583-605. close
12 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2020-04-23 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-04-30 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-05-07 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-05-14 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-05-28 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-06-04 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-06-11 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-06-18 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-06-25 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-07-02 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-07-09 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2020-07-16 16:00 - 18:00