1. Strange Bedfellows?: Reflections on a (Re)emergent Trend in American Healthcare -- 2. Christian Reflections on the Birth of "Religion": A Downward Spiral toward a Generic Spirituality and an Instrumentalized Deity -- 3. Religious Belief as Commodity Fetishism: Individualism, Therapy, and the Market -- 4. The Faithfulness of the Cross and the Idol of the Therapeutic -- 5. Satisfying Our Eager Longing: Toward a Christian Politics of Sickness, Healing, and Caring
Summary
The religion and health movement, as it has become known, has attracted its fair share of sceptics. While most root their criticism in science or secularism, the authors of 'Heal Thyself', one a theological ethicist, the other a physician, instead challenge the basic precepts of the movement from the standpoint of Christian theology
