@inbook{fbbd28ed7af04b8ca589b6a5a1381e9e,
title = "The Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual Healing in South Korea and Israel",
abstract = "This chapter analyses three aspects of spiritual healing in Korea and Israel: the cosmological perspectives on illness, the roles of healers and patients in the treatment, and how spiritual healers and modern doctors view each other. Comparing spiritual folk medicine in a strictly monotheistic society and a multi-religious polytheistic culture reveals that the tensions between modern medicine and spiritual healing relate in both cultures mostly to biopolitics. Institutional concerns and the regulation of bodies and health are more central than religious supernatural concerns. The contradiction between scientific and vernacular medicine does not exist in the worldview of the interviewed healers. They are legitimized at the grassroots level and enjoy the cultural and financial support of many patients in the hypermodern urban centres where they live and work.",
keywords = "Spiritual healing, Biopolitics, South Korea, Shamans, Israel, Rabbis",
author = "Liora Sarfati",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-25592-2_10",
language = "אנגלית",
isbn = "9783031255915",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "185--205",
editor = "Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato",
booktitle = "The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health",
}