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Religion and Healing in America

Barnes LL, Sered SS, ed. Religion and Healing in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Throughout much of the modern era, faith healing received attention only when it came into conflict with biomedical practice. During the 1990s, however, American culture changed dramatically and religious healing became a commonplace feature of our society. Increasing numbers of mainstream churches and synagogues began to hold held “healing services” and “healing circles.” The use of complementary and alternative therapies-some connected with spiritual or religious traditions-became widespread, and the growing hospice movement drew attention to the spiritual aspects of medical care. At the same time, changes in immigration laws brought to the United States new cultural communities, each with their own approaches to healing. Cuban santeros, Haitian mambos and oungans, Cambodian Buddhist priests, Chinese herbalist-acupuncturists, and Hmong shamans are only a few of the newer types of American religious healers, often found practicing within blocks of prestigious biomedical institutions.

This book offers a richly comprehensive collection of essays examining this new reality. It brings together, for the first time, scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives to explore the relatively uncharted field of religious healing as understood and practiced in diverse cultural communities in the United States. The book will be an invaluable resource for students of anthropology, religious studies, American studies, and ethnic studies, health care professionals, clergy, and anyone interested in the changing American cultural landscape.

Barnes LL (Harvard University Press, 2005)

When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the “rediscovery” of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West’s earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing? Barnes traces this story through the mid-nineteenth century, in both Europe and, eventually, the United States. She has unearthed numerous examples of Western missionaries, merchants, diplomats, and physicians in China, Europe, and America encountering and interpreting both Chinese people and their healing practices, and sometimes adopting their own versions of these practices. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners’ understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

Barnes LL, Talamántez IM, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)

The study of medicine and healing traditions is well developed in the discipline of anthropology. Most religious studies scholars, however, continue to assume that “medicine” and “biomedicine” are one and the same and that when religion and medicine are mentioned together, the reference is necessarily either to faith healing or bioethics. Scholars of religion also have tended to assume that religious healing refers to the practices of only a few groups, such as Christian Scientists and pentecostals. Most are now aware of the work of physicians who attempt to demonstrate positive health outcomes in relation to religious practice, but few seem to realize the myriad ways in which healing pervades virtually all religious systems.

This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions and cultural communities. An invaluable resource for faculty in anthropology, religious studies, American studies, sociology, and ethnic studies, it also addresses the needs of educators training physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as “cultural competence” – the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.

2006

Barnes LL. American Acupuncture and Efficacy: Meanings and Their Points of Insertion. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2005; 19(3):239-266.

Barnes LL, Talamántez IM, ed. Teaching Religion and Healing (New York: Oxford University      Press, 2006).
·  Barnes LL. Introduction, pp. 3-26.
·  Barnes LL. Teaching the History of Chinese Healing Traditions, pp. 95-109.
·  Barnes LL. A Medical-School Curriculum on Religion and Healing, pp. 307-
325.
·  Barnes LL. World Religions and Healing, pp. 341-352.
·  Barnes LL. Christian Traditions of Healing: An Annotated Bibliography, pp. 356-370.
·  Barnes LL. African and African Diaspora Traditions and Healing: An Annotated         Bibliography, pp. 374-376.

Laird LD. Teaching Islam and Healing: An Annotated Bibliography. In Teaching Religion and Healing, Linda L. Barnes and Inés Talamantez, ed. (New York: Oxford University, 2006), pp. 371-374.

Sered SS, Barnes LL. Religious Ritual and Healing. In Teaching Ritual, ed. Catherine Bell (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)

2005

Barnes LL. American Acupuncture and Efficacy: Meanings and Their Points of Insertion. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2005; 19(3):239-266.

Barnes LL, Sered SS, ed. Religion and Healing in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
· Sered SS, Barnes, LL. Introduction, pp. 3-26.
· Barnes LL. Multiple Meanings of Chinese Healing in the United States, pp. 307- 331.

Barnes LL. Teaching from the Crossroads: On Religious Healing in African Diaspora Contexts in the Americas. In Teaching African American Religions, Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore L. Trost, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp.175-192.

Laird LD. Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble (Book Review). Journal of Church and State 47, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 393-394.

Smith LA, Hatcher JL, Wertheimer R, Kahn RS. Re-thinking race, income and childhood asthma: exploring racial disparities concentrated among the very poor. Public Health Reports , 2005; 120:109-116.

Smith LA, Cherayil M, Man L, Weisz V, Kreslake J. Affordable Housing and Child Health: A Child Health Impact Assessment of the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program, Child Health Impact Assessment Working Group, Boston, MA, June 2005.

2004

Barnes LL. Concept Paper: Culturally Competent Care. Commissioned for the May 2004 Consensus Building Meeting for the Culturally Competent Nursing Modules (CCNM) Project. Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Sciences, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2004.

Barnes LL. Teaching Religion and Healing. In Spotlight on Teaching—Religious Studies News. Guest-edited issue, Linda L. Barnes, ed. 2004;19(3):ii, xi.

Barnes LL, Risko W, Nethersole S, Maypole J. Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine into Pediatric Training. Pediatric Annals 2004;33(4):257-263.

Zuckerman B, Sandel M, Smith LA, Lawton E. Why pediatricians need lawyers to keep children healthy. Pediatrics, 2004;114:224-228.

2003

Barnes LL. The Acupuncture Wars: The Professionalizing of Acupuncture in the United States—A View from Massachusetts. Medical Anthropology 2003;22:261-301.

Barnes LL. Spirituality and Religion in Health Care. In Cross-cultural Medicine, JudyAnn Bigby, ed. (American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, 2003) 237-267.

Barnes LL. Healing. In Encyclopedia of Religion and Culture in the United States, Gary Laderman and Luis León, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 2003) v.2:627-630.

Barnes LL, Martin JMM. Introduction to “Religions and Empires,” a special issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, co-edited with Joan M. Martin. 2003;71(1):3-12.

Kemper KK, Barnes LL. Considering Culture, CAM, and Spirituality. Clinical Pediatrics 2003;42:205-208

Highfield ES, Kaptchuk TJ, Kemper KJ, Barnes LL, Ott M. Availability of acupuncture in the hospitals of a major academic medical center. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 2003;11:177-183.

2002

Barnes LL. Varieties of healing.. Annals of Internal Medicine 2002;137(3):217-8

Barnes LL. East Asian Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine 2002;137(8):702-703

Siegel B, Tenenbaum A, Jamanka A, Barnes LL, Hubbard C, Zuckerman B. Faculty and Resident Attitudes about Spirituality and Religion in the Provision of Pediatric Health Care. Journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association 2002;2(1):5-10.

Fox, K. “Hotep’s Story: Exploring the Wounds of Health Vulnerability in the US” Theoretical Medicine 23: 471-497. December 2002.

Krakauer, E., C. Crenner,and K. Fox: “Barriers to Optimal End of Life Care for Minority Patients.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Vol.50: 182-190. Jan. 2002.

Fox, K. :Review: “Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health” by Keith Wailoo. Nature Jan 31, 2002.

2000

Barnes LL. The Psychologizing of Chinese Healing Practices in the United States. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1998;22:413-443. (Republished by The European Journal of Oriental Medicine, 2000;3(4):10-29).

Barnes LL, Plotnikoff GA, Fox K, Pendleton S. Religious Traditions, Spirituality and Pediatrics: Intersecting Worlds of Healing: A Review. Journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association 2000;106(4):899-908.

Plotnikoff GA, Barnes LL. Cross-cultural primary care. Annals of Internal Medicine 2000;164-
165.

Kemper KJ, Sarah R, Silver-Highfield E, Xiarhos E, Barnes L, Berde C. On Pins and Needles: Children’s Experience with Acupuncture. Journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, 2000;105(4, Pt.2):941-947.

Fox, K. Provider-Patient Communication in the Context of Inequalities. 31st Ross Roundtable on Critical Approaches to Common Pediatric Problems: Child Health in the Multicultural Environment (2000)

In Press / In Process

Barnes LL. Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Immigrants in the United States. In Immigrant Medicine, ed. Elizabeth Barnett and Patricia Walker. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, In press).

Barnes LL, Laird LD. Religion and Public Health. In Encyclopedia of Public Health, ed. Kristian Heggenhougen et al. (Elsevier, forthcoming 2007).

Laird LD, Barnett ED, Barnes LL. Muslims and Healthcare Disparities: a review. Archives of Disease in Childhood (forthcoming 2007).

Laird LD. Who says we’re a community? Researching Muslims and Healing in Boston. In A. Williamson and R. DeSouza, eds., Researching with Communities (Titirangi, Waitakere City, Aotearoa/New Zealand: Wairua Consulting (forthcoming 2007).

Laird LD. A Christian Engages Islam: How Muslims have Transformed my Faith. Review and Expositor (co-editing issue, forthcoming 2007).

Laird LD, de Marrais J, Barnes LL. Portraying Islam and Muslims in MedLine: a Content Analysis. (under review).

Smith LA, Oyeku SO, Homer C, Zuckerman B. Sickle cell disease: a question of equity and quality. Accepted for publication in Pediatrics.