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| School: | School of Social Sciences and Humanities |
| Unit Description: | Examine the way communities draw upon their religious beliefs to maintain community health and well being and to conceptualise and respond to illness and disease. Study early Hebrew, ancient Greek and early Christian societies to the present. Issues: community health maintenance through social and cultic boundaries; individual responses to illness arising from faith and spirituality; perceptions of the source of, and responsibility for, illness in divine or human realms; forms and rituals of healing, and their administration in communities. |
| Enrolment Options: | | THE283 | MURDOCH: Semester 1, Internal | | THE483 | MURDOCH: Semester 1, Internal |
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| Contact Time: | Lectures/tutorials: 3 hours per week. |
| Fees: | Details |
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This information has been extracted dynamically from the 2008 Murdoch University Handbook |
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THE283 Religious Responses to Health, Illness and Disease
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