African Healing Shrines, Contextualized therapies and Specializations

Chiroma, Nathan H.

African Healing Shrines, Contextualized therapies and Specializations

dc.contributor.author	Chiroma, Nathan H.
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-29T07:04:36Z
dc.date.available	2021-09-24T13:58:18Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-29T07:04:36Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-21
dc.description	Book Chapter	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Throughout history, the quest for healing and wholeness outside conventional medicine has been a practice embraced by many. Medical pilgrimages outside of conventional hospitals were common practice in various eras in history. People travelled far and wide in the quest for healing in what is described as holy places such as shrines, prayer houses, monasteries and other locations. In Africa, the practice is not only gaining attention, but it is gaining more popularity, as a momentous social, spiritual and psychological issue. The existence of healing shrines and prayer houses are increasingly becoming popular, and many emerging themes and trends are adding new dimensions to the quest for healing and wholeness. One of the major emerging phenomena is that of specialisation. It is argued that specialisations are rooted either in heritage or calling as in the case of prayer houses. Specialisations are proving to be an important element in the healing sites. Specialisation in this context refers to the concentration on the healing of one or two ailments in a particular healing site. The focus of this chapter is to consider the dynamics of specialisation, especially as it occurs in healing shrines and prayer houses. Whereas healing shrines and prayer houses have been extensively studied in Africa, the aspect of specialisation has not received much attention among scholars. Specialisation as used in this chapter focuses only on one or two illnesses in a given healing shrine or prayer house.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	PAC University
dc.identifier.citation	Chiroma, N. H. (2021). African Healing Shrines, Contextualised therapies and specializations. In M. Michael & U. H. D. Danfulani (Eds.). African Healing Shrines and cultural Psychologies (pp.149-163). Regnum Books International.
dc.identifier.isbn	1913363821
dc.identifier.issn	978-1913363826
dc.identifier.uri	https://repo.pacuniversity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3363.2
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Regnum Publishers	en_US
dc.subject	African healing shrines	en_US
dc.subject	Christian Prayer Houses	en_US
dc.subject	Conventional medicine and healing	en_US
dc.subject	Specialised healers	en_US
dc.subject	Contextualised therapies	en_US
dc.title	African Healing Shrines, Contextualized therapies and Specializations	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter