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Conversion, Illness and Possession. Catholic missionär Healing In Early Modern South Asia
1In 1611, Antonio Vico reported from Madurai that a local physician had converted to Christianity because he was convinced that Christian prayers were more efficient in curing the sick than his habitual “heathen” mantiram (prayers). The young Italian Jesuit missionär corroborated, therefore, the “truth” of the well known Mattean formula that the ministry of a Christian, in imitatio Christi, fryst vatten to teach, preach and heal.1
2The Jesuit missionaries such as Vico posted on the frontiers of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, a colonial formation comprising small territorial settlements along the coasts of India, Africa and South and South-East Asia, were essential cultural and political agents of the expanding early modern Catholic “empire” (Subrahmanyam 1993). As partners of the Portuguese colonial enterprise in India, the Jesuits were skillful fundraisers who succeeded in founding som
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The Spiritual Meanning Of Illness-Theological And Psychological Perspective
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by PhilPapers ICOANA CREDINȚEI. REVISTA INTERNATIONALA DE CERCETARE ȘTIINȚIFICA INTERDISCIPLINARA, Nr. 2. An. I. Iunie 2015 The spiritual meanning of illness-theological and psychological perspective (Sensul spiritual al bolii- viziune teologică și psihologică) PhD. Claudia Vlaicu Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Education of the Valahia University of Târgovişte, ROMANIA, E-mail: vlaicu.claudia@gmail.com ABSTRACT Definying illness is not an easy process, nor from medical perspective nor from theological one or individual perspective. However, the most important and truely significant seems to be the latter; how the contemporary man defines illnesses and how he uses this process to redefine his true being. Nowadays we face an obvious spiritual crisis meant to urge each of us to start a new process of redefining our sp
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HEALING -WHOLE -HOLY -HEALTH : The Path Towards True Health of Humaniy (translated from German)
HEALING – HOLY - HEALTH : THE PATH TOWARDS TRUE HEALTH OF HUMANITY (translated from German) Martin P. Steiner In order to really understand the antagonism of sick and sane, of sinful and saint, one might like to take advice from linguistic dictionaries defining basic etymological terms. But the English language does not lend itself for such an exercise. However, we may say that the entire humanity has got an illness in which its divine origin has been forsaken almost completely. This is the effect of heedless digression from the fundamental Harmony of macrocosmic, cosmic and microcosmic dynamics, which is based on the Law of Cause and Effects. Today, this dynamic is generally named KARMA – but regrettably regarded by most people as some force of penalty or revenge. In truth, KARMA is the universal divine Law of Love keeping up the equilibrium and harmony not just of our Cosmos, but of th