Comptes rendus/Reviews of books: Faith Healing LOUIS ROSE Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1970. 194. $1.25 Ecstatic Religion / An Anthropoligical Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism I.M. LEWIS Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1971.222. $1.50
Comptes rendus/Reviews of books: Faith Healing LOUIS ROSE Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1970. 194. $1.25 Ecstatic Religion / An Anthropoligical Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism I.M. LEWIS Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1971.222. $1.50
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Comptes rendus/书评:信仰治疗路易斯·罗斯·哈蒙兹沃斯:企鹅图书 1970。194。1.25 美元 欣喜若狂的宗教/灵魂占有和萨满教的人类学研究 I.M.刘易斯·哈蒙兹沃斯:企鹅图书 1971.222。
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1972
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Dr Rose is an English psychiatrist who has been actively interested in faith healing for twenty years. He tells us that he set out to ascertain the truth about faith healing because if it is a genuine phenomenon it should be brought into line with the main body of medical knowledge: ’a validated faith-healing service could mean the saving of millions of pounds yearly on drugs and hospitalization.’ On the other hand, if it is not then the efforts of faith healers are at best a waste of time and at worst a conscious or unconscious deception which might influence the sick to neglect orthodox medical treatment. Dr Rose’s aim was to find a handful of cases, perhaps even a single case, in which the intervention of a faith healer had led to irrefutable cure. This was to