Dettaglio
AutoreDei Fabio
TitoloSalute e salvezza: spunti per una discussione
RivistaReligioni e societą. Rivista di scienze sociali della religione.
Annata19
Fasc.48
Anno2004
Pagine9-23
Campo TematicoInterreligiositą e Interculturalitą
Parole Chiave
Abstract In Naissance de la clinique, M. Foucault describes the rise of modern clinical medicine, which radically separates the spheres, previously blurred, of health (physical state of the body) and salvation (religious state of the soul). Today, in late (or post-) modernity, several symptoms suggest a re-approaching of these two notions. New Age movements, alternative or non-conventional medicines, various kinds of faith healing and a lot of other contemporary social phenomena share an ethical ?if not explicitly religious- stance towards health and illness. The state of illness is related to moral vices, like an unnatural life-style, a wrong diet, stress in everyday activities: these vices cause an unbalance of vital energy, which has to be restored by a self-healing process, often involving a kind of spiritual conversion. This paper discusses the problem from the point of view of medical anthropology, trying to relate the health-salvation complex to other distinctive features of late modernity, like the ?re-enchantment of the world? and a pervasive communication system based on electronic mass media.
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