Soul and Body Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Middle Eastern Religious Cultures and Traditions

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54910-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 811 g

Reihe: Studies on the Children of Abraham

Aiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith—either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one’s body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Popa, Catalin-Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Catalin-Stefan Popa

1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus

Luke Dysinger

2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique Monasticism

Daniel Lemeni

3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church Fathers

Martin Meiser

4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late Antiquity

Daniel Asade

5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique Iran

Mahnaz Moazami

6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar Bahlul

Stefanie Rudolf

7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of Disease

Catalin-Stefan Popa

8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian Tradition

Jesse Siragan Arlen

9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian Hagiography

Gaga Shurgaia

10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in Byzantium

Raffaele Guerra

11 Non-Codex G???z Manuscripts as Forms of Healing

Hagos Abrha Abay

12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in Naples

Nadia Zeldes

13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qur?anic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from Timbuktu

Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor

14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’

Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of Optina

Eugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav Yachmenik

Index of Subjects

Index of Names

Index of Places

Über Autor(innen)

Catalin-Stefan Popa, Ph.D. (2016) Georg August University of Go¨ttingen, Habilitation (2021), Karl Franzens University of Graz, is Research Professor at the Romanian Academy. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles, including The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2023). He is editor-in-chief and founder of The Syriac Annals of Romanian Academy (SARA).