Aesthetics Of Healing Research Articles

Kurz, Helmar: Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing

Kurz, Helmar: Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing

Bruce KAPFERER, A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 238 pages, US $32.50 (cloth), US $18.50 (paper)

Bruce KAPFERER, A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 238 pages, US $32.50 (cloth), US $18.50 (paper). An article from journal Culture (Volume 5, Number 2, 1985, pp. 3-123), on Érudit.

Teaching Trauma and Theology Inspires Lives of Witnessing Discipleship

AbstractThis article argues that teaching theology and trauma signifies the role of theological education as a conducive site for the missional formation of witnessing discipleship. Witnessing discipleship is a risky practice of bearing witness to life and healing in the midst of violence and its traumatic traces. As a central dimension of academic formation, teaching plays a significant role in empowering and inspiring students toward lives of witnessing discipleship.The article draws the key concept of witnessing discipleship from the ancient Christian tradition of martyrdom into conversation with a trauma perspective on witnessing by embedding the concept in the complex history of communal religious violence and political violence in Indonesia. The aim is to provide a picture of the complex interconnection between theological education (academia) and the public sphere – which is shaped by collective trauma – in which the missional formation is taking place. The article uses Jakarta Theological Seminary, the oldest Protestant/ecumenical seminary in Indonesia, as a case study for a contextual model of the teaching of theology and trauma that equips students for practising witnessing discipleship.Shelly Rambo, whose work on theology and trauma is shaping a theological shift in response to trauma, is the main interlocutor. This article affirms that trauma ruptures theology. It focuses on two intertwined dimensions of the rupturing – the Christian discourse on suffering and witnessing – by employing the image of a posture that embodies the unspeakability of trauma and the promise of healing. It articulates a theological response to the ways in which trauma and healing contain each other and shape the public sphere. This article offers three intertwined layers – the multidirectional classroom, the hermeneutic of rupture, and the aesthetics of healing.

The Aesthetics of Healing in the Sacredness of the African American Female’s Bible: Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain

Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939) stands in the tradition of African American use of the biblical musings that aims to relativize and yet uphold a new version of the sacred story under the gaze of a black woman that manipulates and admonishes the characters of the gospel to offer a feminist side of the Bible. The novel discloses Hurston’s mastering of the aesthetics that black folklore infused to the African American cultural experience and her accommodation to bring to the fore the needed voice of black women. Rejecting the role of religion as a reductive mode of social protest, the novel extends its jeremiadic ethos and evolves into a black feminist manifesto in which a world without women equates disruption and instability. Hurston showcases the importance of an inclusive and ethic sacred femininity to reclaim a new type of womanhood both socially and aesthetically. Three decades before the post-colonial era, Hurston’s bold representation of the sacred femininity recasts the jeremiad tradition to pin down notions of humanitarianism, social justice and the recognition of politics of art. All in all, in an era of a manly social protest literature Hurston opts for portraying the folkloric aesthetics of spirituality as creative agency simply to acknowledge the leadership of the sacred femininity that black women could remodel into art.

Aesthetics of healing and experience in Tao yuanming literature

Aesthetics of healing and experience in Tao yuanming literature

The Aesthetics of Healing and Love

The Aesthetics of Healing and Love

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Healing: Woolf, Medicine, and Professionalization

What strikes the reader of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is its fine interweaving of a celebration of life with the theme of despair. Set on one single June day in 1923, the novel fol...

Bruce KAPFERER, A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1983, Pp. 312; 7 figs., 58 photos, notes, bib.,index, map, (clothbound) $32.50, (paper) $18.50)

Bruce KAPFERER, A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1983, Pp. 312; 7 figs., 58 photos, notes, bib.,index, map, (clothbound) $32.50, (paper) $18.50). Un article de la revue Ethnologies (Ethnologie régionale) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

A Celebration of Demons. Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.

A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. BRUCE KAPFERER

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A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka.

A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka.

Why celebrate demons?

Kapferer, Bruce. A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. xvii + 293 pp. including illustrations, bibliography and indices. $32.50 cloth. $18.50 paper.