Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,1 (2022) 91-124
Keywords:
Wormser, Seckel,
;
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich,
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Mohr, Heinrich,
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Medicine, Popular History 19th century
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Healers Biography
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Jews History 19th century
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Cabalists Biography
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Rabbis History 19th century
Abstract:
This essay places the stories of three different healers into conversation with Modernity and the development of medicine in the early 19th century. These healers were different, most notably in their religious backgrounds and the ways that they leveraged their faith traditions (even if in less traditional ways) to attempt to heal sick people. While these healers were well-known in their time, and each has individually received important scholarly treatment (primarily in German scholarship), bringing them together allows us to explore similarities and differences across confessional boundaries in a period when the relationship between religion and medicine was more complex and at times more symbiotic than many today might imagine.... The discussion that follows about the intersections of popular healing, religion, and politics in Christian and Jewish contexts serves to confirm and further complexify the relationship between what have often been seen as opposing trends and worldviews on the eve of Modernity. Healing, in its many forms, crossed the boundaries of practice, confession, politics, and science in many ways that illustrate the porous and malleable nature of Modernity, even as it was shaping and being shaped in more hardened forms.
DOI:
10.1515/asch-2022-0001
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