Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa

Decolonizing the notion of mental illness and healing in Nigeria, West Africa Akomolafe,

Spiritual Healing

to the blind, and an arm Avithered and useless for sixteen years suddenly became perfectly whole. Moreover, " we have seen cancers disappear within twenty minutes." We make bold to say at once that, whatever it was that disappeared, it was not cancer, and it is not surprising that these remarkable statements should have produced a large amount of newspaper correspondence from medical and scient...

Human and spiritual agency in Angami healing.

Despite the thought-provoking theological and philosophical implications of the adage urging the healer to heal him/herself, medical anthropology has, with some notable exceptions, given relatively little attention to the problems of well-being experienced by healers themselves, as distinct from those of their patients. This paper focuses on the conflicts experienced by men and women who become...

The Background of Spiritual Healing

Those who have read Miss Ikin's earlier little book on " Religion and Psycho-therapy" will expect to find in this present work a clear and simple treatment of her subject and they will undoubtedly not be disappointed. Miss Ikin has stated with great clearness and simplicity the case for spiritual healing, than which few studies today are of greater interest to thoughtful people. Since the begin...

On healing the epidemic of MAD.