Religion and Illness in a Medicalised World
3:00pm - 6:00pm /
Wednesday 16th November 2016
/ Venue: Victoria Gallery & Museum
Type: Workshop /
Category: Department
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Dr Roland Clark (History, University of Liverpool) and Dr Simon Podmore (Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope University)
An interactive workshop in the context of exploring the relationship between religious experiences, beliefs, and healing in the context of modern medical discourses surrounding psychiatry and mental health. The workshop is being held in the context of the Phantom Limb exhibit at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, which runs from 9 July 2016 to 3 December 2016.
The workshop will involve a group discussion of issues such as:
- How do artworks and images of sickness trauma represent God, or His absence? In what ways do representations of doctors, institutions, and other authority figures communicate the artists’ ideas about God?
- What is the place of science and medicine when it comes to describing communication with the supernatural through prayer, dreams, visions, uncommon insights, mediums, or clairvoyance?
- When do religious experiences become mental health issues, and when does mental illness become a religious problem?
- When and in what ways can religious practices such as meditation, prayer, penitence, fasting, tithing, or mortification be detrimental to the physical and psychological wellbeing of practitioners?
- What is the relationship between faith healing and other major, socially authorized approaches to healthcare such as Western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine?
- How do religious beliefs impact the healing process in various types of physical and mental illnesses?
- How do the religious beliefs of healers alter the way they practice medicine?
- Do religious approaches to healing stigmatize and isolate healers and/or patients?
- To what extent do religious approaches to healing blur or reinforce the distinction between healer and patient?
An interactive workshop in the context of exploring the relationship between religious experiences, beliefs, and healing in the context of modern medical discourses surrounding psychiatry and mental health. The workshop is being held in the context of the Phantom Limb exhibit at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, which runs from 9 July 2016 to 3 December 2016.
The workshop will involve a group discussion of issues such as:
- How do artworks and images of sickness trauma represent God, or His absence? In what ways do representations of doctors, institutions, and other authority figures communicate the artists’ ideas about God?
- What is the place of science and medicine when it comes to describing communication with the supernatural through prayer, dreams, visions, uncommon insights, mediums, or clairvoyance?
- When do religious experiences become mental health issues, and when does mental illness become a religious problem?
- When and in what ways can religious practices such as meditation, prayer, penitence, fasting, tithing, or mortification be detrimental to the physical and psychological wellbeing of practitioners?
- What is the relationship between faith healing and other major, socially authorized approaches to healthcare such as Western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine?
- How do religious beliefs impact the healing process in various types of physical and mental illnesses?
- How do the religious beliefs of healers alter the way they practice medicine?
- Do religious approaches to healing stigmatize and isolate healers and/or patients?
- To what extent do religious approaches to healing blur or reinforce the distinction between healer and patient?