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Faith Healing

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In Traditional South African Healing, the Physical, Spiritual, and Ancestral Worlds Come Together as One

See how urban healers are drawing on a practice shrouded in secrecy and combining it with modern medicine.

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Mary Baker Eddy

In 1866, a frail, impoverished invalid, middle-aged, widowed and divorced, rose from her bed after a life-threatening fall, asked for her Bible, and took the first steps toward the founding of the Christian Science Church.

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Can Faith Heal?

You don't have to take it on faith anymore. Religion can be good for your health. That is the urgent message of Dr. David B. Larson, a psychiatrist who has improbably dedicated his career to exploring the subject.

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The Healing Touch: Indigenous Healers Getting Results

Can 40,000-year-old healing methods solve 21st-century illnesses?

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When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law

When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law is the first book to fully examine the complex web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of the phenomenon known by experts as religion-based medical...

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Faith & Healing

According to a NEWSWEEK Poll, 72 percent of Americans say they would welcome a conversation with their physician about faith; the same number say they believe that praying to God can cure someone--even if science says the person doesn't stand a chance.

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Rohingya Faith Healers: Refugees Try Modern Medicine for Health Issues

In some parts of the world health care is often only available from faith healers. But in Bangladesh, the traditional practices of the Rohingya refugees are slowly giving way to modern medicine. Mhairi Beveridge explains.

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Folk Religion of the Pennsylvania Dutch: Witchcraft, Faith Healing and Related Practices

For almost three centuries, the "Pennsylvania Dutch"--descended from German immigrants--have practiced white magic, known in their dialect as Braucherei (from the German "brauchen," to use) or Powwowing.

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‘Bad Faith,’ by Paul A. Offit

In fact, the reason for the continued and enormous popularity of faith healing is that, to some extent at least, it works.

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Faith Healing and Modern Medicine

Thousands of Americans choose faith healings over medical intervention every day, for themselves and for their children. When does a country that prides itself on freedom of religion declare that public health trumps personal belief?

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