Care Through Touch: Massage as the Art of Anointing

Care Through Touch: Massage as the Art of Anointing
ISBN-10
1441122052
ISBN-13
9781441122056
Category
Body, Mind & Spirit
Pages
220
Language
English
Published
1999-01-10
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
Mary Ann Finch

Description

Most statements about embodied spirituality have been cerebral and abstract, presented from a theological or philosophical point of view. This massage manual seeks to give the reader an experience of embodied spirituality. The introduction situates massage, the art of anointing, within the framework of Christian spirituality and then proceeds to enflesh that through the meditative quality of the massage sequences, through the graphic and sensitive portrayal of vulnerability among the various men and women who volunteered to be the models in the sequences and, last but not least, through the visible devotion of the massage therapists.

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