Zdrowie i choroba w dyskursie religijnym w świetle analizy rytuału uzdrawiania modlitwą na mszy św. z charyzmatyczną modlitwą o uzdrowienie ...
Health and sickness in the religious discourse, in the light of an analysis of the healing through prayer ritual observed during a Holy Mass ...

Summary/Abstract: Based on her own research, the author analyses some modern health rituals observed in the Roman-Catholic Church in Poland. In the times of thriving biomedicine, it is surprising how extremely popular the religious attitude is, manifested not only through traditional religious practices, but also presented in new texts about religious and pro-health behaviour, propagated by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal groups. It may result from the fact that in the religious discourse, healing is something more than modern medicine has to offer. It is a religious experience, an experience of the sacrum, lived through individually and collectively at the same time (analysed, remembered and publicly recreated through stories about healing, spread in the community).

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