Hope of healing is not a specific phenomenon of modern society. In ancient Greece, scientific healing approaches, taught at schools for scientific medicine, as well as healing procedures based on religion, co-existed. Latter particularly focused on sleep - the so called incubation -? and were practiced at temples of die healing god Asclepius. After introductory remarks on die practice of therapeutic sleep at Asdepius temples, die second part deals with die question of what happened with such sanctuaries after the Roman Empire was christianized and how Christians dealt with die healing tradition of incubation. The last part focuses on general results from die historic parts.
Enthalten in:
Theologische Literaturzeitung; 2006/12 Monatsschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft
(2006)
Serie / Reihe: Theologische Literaturzeitung
Personen: Markschies, Christoph
Markschies, Christoph:
Gesund werden im Schlaf? : Die antiken Schlafkulte und das Christentum / Christoph Markschies, 2006. - Sp.1233-1244 - (Theologische Literaturzeitung)
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