THE483: Religious Responses to Health, Illness and Disease (Not available in 2010)

Examine the way communities draw upon their religious beliefs to maintain community health and well being and to conceptualise and respond to illness and disease. Study early Hebrew, ancient Greek and early Christian societies to the present. Issues: community health maintenance through social and cultic boundaries; individual responses to illness arising from faith and spirituality; perceptions of the source of, and responsibility for, illness in divine or human realms; forms and rituals of healing, and their administration in communities.

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Points	4
Enrolment Options	Not available 2010
Contact Time	Lectures/tutorials: 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Nil.
School	School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Unit Coordinator	Dr Suzanne Boorer Position: Senior Lecturer in Old Testament E-mail: S.Boorer@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Social Sciences Room 3.003 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 6141
Unit Contacts	No contacts available, please contact the unit coordinator for more information

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)