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Healing Performance

Healing Performance is a ritualized performative practice within the broader category of cultural performance, distinguished by its intentional engagement of symbolic action, embodiment, and collective participation to restore individual or communal well-being in accordance with specific sociocultural and spiritual frameworks.

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399

Authors

182

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2017–2026

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Publications

267

The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing

Andrew Strathern, Thomas J. Csordas · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1995 · 507 citations

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Boiling Energy. Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung

Una Maclean, Richard J. Katz · Journal of Religion in Africa · 1985 · 405 citations

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Lourdes: healing in a place of pilgrimage

Wil Gesler · Health & Place · 1996 · 318 citations

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Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama.

Cecilia E. Dawkins, T. J. Scheff · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1982 · 309 citations

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Body and emotion: the aesthetics of illness and healing in the Nepal Himalayas

Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 271 citations

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Authors

399

  1. DE
    David Edwin Harrell

    Auburn University, United States

    3 publications · 69 citations

    3

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  2. WB
    Wayne B. Jonas

    Samueli Institute, United States

    3 publications · 75 citations

    3

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  3. CL
    Carol Laderman

    Fordham University, United States

    3 publications · 125 citations

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  4. TJ
    Thomas J. Csordas

    University of California San Diego, United States

    3 publications · 624 citations

    3

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  5. CC
    Cindy Crawford

    Samueli Institute, United States

    2 publications · 38 citations

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Institutions

182

  1. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    126 citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    157 citations

  3. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

    Beersheba, Israel

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    173 citations

  4. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    175 citations

  5. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    68 citations

  6. Mayo Clinic

    Rochester, United States

    3 h-index

    14 publications

    300 citations

  7. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    96 citations

  8. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    50 citations

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Venues

  1. PubMed

    Repository · 16 publications · 514 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 13 publications · 880 citations

    13

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  3. Social Science & Medicine

    13 publications · 423 citations

    12

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  4. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry

    9 publications · 398 citations

    9

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  5. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 6 publications · 144 citations

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