Alternative Medicine: Health-oriented Spiritual Practices in Norway
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Alternative Medicine: Health-oriented Spiritual Practices in Norway - New Age in Norway |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Anne Kalvig; Norway |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religion |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | religion; Norway; health; healing; spiritual healing; alternative medicine; alternative therapy; CAM; spiritual therapy; body; Jonathan Z. Smith |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | Alternative medicine and alternative therapy (CAM) is a vital part of New Age or alternative spirituality, in Norway as well as elsewhere. However, those health-oriented, spiritual practices conventionally labelled alternative medicine might be analyzed from a wide range of different perspectives. I provide a sketchy overview of the phenomenon of alternative medicine and therapy in Norway and seek to give a preliminary answer to what it means to consider such practices as religion. I use the spatial model of religion outlined by Smith (2003) and further adapted by Gilhus (2013) for the purpose of categorizing and gaining a certain overview of CAM in Norway “as” religion/resembling religion or religious or spiritual practices. This categorization is not meant to be conclusive; rather, it is more of a model “to think with” and part of a further discussion of the relationship between alternative medicine and religion towards the end of the chapter. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 06-Mar-2017 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/books/article/view/28882 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.28882 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; New Age in Norway |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Norway, twenty first century |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |