Cosmos, Gods and Madmen : : Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine / / ed. by Roland Littlewood, Rebecca Lynch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong, Alice,; Dein, Simon,; Lange, Isabelle L.,; Littlewood, Roland,; Lynch, Rebecca,; Napier, A. David,; Orr, David M. R.,; Read, Ursula M.,; Reynolds, Ellie,; Reynolds, Rodney J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Littlewood, Roland,; Lynch, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Divinity, Disease, Distress --; Chapter 1 Why Animism Matters --; Chapter 2 Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure: Panama’s Black Christ --; Chapter 3 Madness and Miracles: Hoping for Healing in Rural Ghana --; Chapter 4 ‘Sakawa’ Rumours Occult Internet Fraud and Ghanaian Identity --; Chapter 5 To Heal the Body: The Body as Congregation among Post-Surgical Patients in Benin --; Chapter 6 Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio- Therapeutic Community --; Chapter 7 Religious Conversion and Madness: Contested Territory in the Peruvian Andes --; Chapter 8 Cosmologies of Fear: The Medicalization of Anxiety in Contemporary Britain --; Chapter 9 Functionalists and Zombis: Sorcery as Spandrel and Social Rescue --; Chapter 10 Religion and Psychosis: A Common Evolutionary Trajectory? --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785331787; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785331787?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Roland Littlewood, Rebecca Lynch.

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.