Download or read book African American Seventh Day Healers written by Ramona Hyman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of African-American healers and the Seventh-day Adventist Church"--
Download or read book African American Healers written by Clinton Cox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-12-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles over thirty notable African Americans in the health field, including Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, Dr. Charles Drew, father of the blood bank, and young pioneering surgeon Ben Carson.
Download or read book African American Folk Healing written by Stephanie Mitchem and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.
Download or read book Working the Roots written by Michele Elizabeth Lee and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing" is an engaging study of the traditional healing arts that have sustained African Americans across the Atlantic ocean for four centuries down through today. Complete with photographs and illustrations, a medicines, remedies, and hoodoo section, interviews and stories.
Download or read book African American Folk Healing written by Stephanie Mitchem and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.
Download or read book Faith Cures and Answers to Prayer written by Mrs. Edward Mix and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition places Sarah Mix (1832-1884) in the context of American religious history, and shows her influence on the emerging faith healing movement and other female healing evangelists, including Carrie Judd Montgomery and Maria Woodworth-Etter. The divine healing movement, also known as faith healing or faith cure was a significant phenomenon in American religion and culture in the late nineteenth century. More importantly, during this period of the divine healing movement, women occupied a central role as practitioners. Both the religious and secular press reported her ministry, which was so successful that physicians referred patients to her. In 1882 Sarah Mix published Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer, which includes an account of her own healing of tuberculosis by a Methodist minister, letters of testimony from individuals who experienced her gift of healing, and press notices.
Download or read book Soul Care in African American Practice written by Barbara L. Peacock and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual director and pastor Barbara Peacock illustrates how the practices of spiritual formation are woven into African American culture and lived out in the rich heritage of its faith community. Using the examples of ten significant men and women, Barbara helps us engage in practices of soul care as we learn from these spiritual leaders.
Download or read book African American Herbalism written by Lucretia VanDyke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-its-kind herbal guide takes you through the origins of herbal practices rooted in African American tradition--from Ancient Egypt and the African tropics to the Caribbean and the United States. Inside you'll find the stories of herbal healers like Emma Dupree and Henrietta Jeffries, who made modern American herbalism what it is today. You'll also find a comprehensive herbal guide to the most commonly used herbs--such as aloe, lavender, sage, sassafras, and more--alongside gorgeous botanical illustrations. African American Herbalism is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to explore the medicinal and healing properties of herbs.
Download or read book Spirituality and Healing written by Wynne DuBray and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's time, spiritual healing has become important. This book provides an overview of spiritual healing from a multicultural perspective, offering useful information for social workers and other human services practitioners for working with clients of color.
Download or read book Health Healing for African Americans written by Sheree Crute and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and Healing for African-Americans is the first A-to-Z guide for African-Americans that brings you straightforward advice from more than 150 African-American health experts. You'll find over 1,000 practical solutions to help you prevent and treat a wide range of health problems. From America's leading Black doctors, learn how to: reduce your risks for high blood pressure and heart disease, handle diabetes without drugs, learn when sex is safe and when it's not, treat sickle cell disease, protect yourself and your family from the threat of violence in your community, and eat right and keep your weight under control. Plus special health-care information for women and men: sisters - take charge of fibroids, cut your breast cancer risk, and plan a healthy pregnancy; brothers - protect yourself from prostate cancer and keep stress from harming your heart. You will also find advice and inspiration from African-Americans who took health care into their own hands - and triumphed. Actor Levar Burton and his wife, Stephanie, explain how they overcame infertility to have the family of their dreams. Theatrical producer and former dancer Harold Perkins describes how he beat heart disease and saved his career. Victoria Johnson, one of the nation's top physical trainers, reveals how she became fit and healthy after struggling with bulimia and a weight problem.
Download or read book Spirituality Health and Healing An Integrative Approach written by Caroline Young and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spiritual, Health, and Healing : An Integrative Approach, Second Edition offers healthcare professionals, instructors, and spiritual care providers a comprehensive guide to the most current research on the connection between spiritual practice and health. This updated Second Edition includes new sections on integral spirituality and the New Thought Movement; healing rituals and healing environments; plus new information on spirituality and aging, caring for the elderly, and spiritual hospice."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Download or read book The Healing Power of African American Spirituality written by Stephanie Rose Bird and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential resource and guide to African American spirituality and traditions. This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions. Inside you will find: 1. A celebration of healing, magic, and the divination traditions of ancient African earth-based spirituality 2. An explanation of how these practices have evolved in contemporary African American culture 3. A potpourri of recipes, rituals, and resources that you can use to heal your life Among the topics covered: African spiritual practices of Santeria, Obeah, Lucumi, Orisa, and Quimbois Hoodoo—and how to use it to improve your health Ancient healing rituals and magical recipes of Daliluw Talking drums, spiritual dancing, clapping, tapping, singing, and changing Power objects, tricks and mojo bags, and herbal remedies Previously published as The Big Book of Soul.
Download or read book Health and Healing for African Americans written by Sheree Crute and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-Americans are susceptible to certain medical conditions, and thus, have an average lifespan that is ten years shorter than Caucasians. Previously, these disorders, which include sickle-cell anemia, diabetes, and vitiligo, had been ignored by the medical community. Health & Healing for African-Americans is an encyclopedia of medical advice and treatment prescribed by 150 leading African-American physicians. It offers a clear description of each condition, followed by home remedies, medical treatments, and strategies that have a proven track record in managing and preventing these pressing health problems. With a foreword from former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, M.D., every page of this valuable tome begins with personal stories from people who have faced and overcome their health problems. With its hundreds of helpful health messages, Health & Healing for African-Americans is on the cutting edge of a revolution in disease prevention and self-care among African-Americans.
Download or read book The Faith Healers written by James Randi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the pretension and fraud that surrounds the faith healer business, revealing how alleged faith healers prey on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of the people they preach to.
Download or read book Called to Heal written by Susan Schuster Campbell and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of some remarkable people from the African Healing tradition. It exposes many of us, for the first time, to ways of relating to our world that are holistic and shamanistic in nature, adding real quality and value to our lives. It challenges us to integrate the contribution of African healing methods, and these extraordinary healers, into a new healthier vision of our future.
Download or read book Working Cures written by Sharla M. Fett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.
Download or read book I Will Survive written by Lori S. Robinson and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking guide for African Americans containing an abundance of culturally specific and compassionate advice and information about healing from sexual assault and abuse.
