Spiritual Healing

Explores both religious and scientific perspectives on spiritual healing, identifying what it is and how it works.

This edited collection explores what spiritual healing is and how it works, from a variety of religious and scientific points of view. It is demonstrated that these two apparently opposed perspectives answer different questions about spiritual healing, and there is not necessarily any conflict between them.There has recently been much interest in the relationship between science and religion, and how they combine to give us a 'binocular' perspective on things. One important phenomenon which has been neglected in recent work is the concept of spiritual healing. This edited collection explores a variety of approaches to spiritual healing from different religious points of view, identifying both what it is and how it works. The authors also explore the biological and psychological processes, open to scientific enquiry, through which healing may be mediated. As such, this book indicates the central proposition that religious and scientific perspectives answer different questions about healing, and there is not necessarily any conflict between them.