Situating religion and medicine in Asia

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collec...

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This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are 'religion' and 'medicine' the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?

Front matter pp Intro–ii
Contents pp iii–iv
List of illustrations pp v–v
List of Contributors pp vi–x
Foreword pp xi–xiii
Acknowledgements pp xiv–xx
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Front matter pp Intro–ii
Contents pp iii–iv
List of illustrations pp v–v
List of Contributors pp vi–x
Foreword pp xi–xiii
Acknowledgements pp xiv–xx
Introduction pp 1–58
Part I: East Asia pp 59–162
Religion and health care in middle-period China
Religion and medicine in premodern Japan
Female alchemy in late imperial and modern China
Part II: South Asia pp 163-254
Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: the Rāmāyaṇa and the politics of an epic plant
From ‘medical men’ to ‘local health traditions’: the secularisation of medicine in portrayals of health care in India
Sound medicine: towards a nomadology of medical mantras in seventeenth to twentieth-century Bengal
Part III: Himalayas, Southeast Asia pp 255-378
Sowa Rigpa, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan healing
Homeopathy and Islam in Malaysia: encounters of religion and complementary medical traditions in a modern Asian multi-ethnic society
Questioning the boundaries between medicine and religion in contemporary Myanmar
Index pp 379-392
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