When Sickness Heals: The Place of Religious Belief in Healthcare

Dr. Siroj Sorajjakool draws on more than ten years of studies of health benefits in relation to spirituality, with a special focus on the function of ‘meaning.’ He expounds on his theory that healing is primarily the function of meaning and details the importance of healing the soul as well as the body. Sorajjkool brings many Eastern and Western resources to his conversation on health, meaning and healing. He incorporates the perspectives of theologians and philosophers like Paul Tillich, Carl Jung, Soren Kirkegaard, Raimundo Panikkar, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Macquarrie; as well as references to religious literature, including yin and yang, alchemy, and goddess Khali.