This essay examines faith healing in the select texts of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud (2016) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (2016) as a spiritual and ecological practice that extends beyond the biomedical paradigm of healing. By analyzing both texts, the study foregrounds how narratives of healing are embedded in the ecological consciousness of the oral traditions. Faith healing...
This study examines the features of religious experience in the Soka Gakkai (SG) compared with William James’s theory. Religious experiences in the SG are not as ‘mystical’ as those James describes. Daisaku Ikeda asserts that everyone should dedicate their full effort to resolving the problems they face. The doctrine of ‘voluntarily assuming the appropriate karma’ (gan-ken-o-go)...
In the current digital era, despite technological advancements and increased access to education, there remains a significant population in Indonesia that believes in traditional healing practices associated with ‘mystical’ illnesses. One such illness is sawan. This research aims to provide a comprehensive description of the forms, factors, as well as treatments or prevention of sawan through...
Situated cognition seems to be one of the relevant pillars in the literature on embodied cognition: a matter of understanding the subject and its cognition in involved and mutual manner. This is a continuous process in which the flow of information affects the body, the world, and the very process of engagement. Dance should be deemed as situated cognition. Thus, assuming that contextual...