Anthropology of ConsciousnessAbstractVolume 14, Number 1, March-June 2003, pages 1-19 Faith, Healing and “Ecstasy Deprivation”: Secular Society in a New Age of Anxiety Erika Bourguignon At a time when there is a health care crisis in the United States, there is widespread appeal to religious healing of various types. Adequate research in this area is limited. Terms such as “ecstasy” are used inconsistently, limiting the usefulness of the term, producing confusion rather than understanding. A cross-cultural comparative perspective is offered. |
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