{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,6]],"date-time":"2022-04-06T03:43:34Z","timestamp":1649216614088},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Det Kgl. Bibliotek\/Royal Danish Library","issue":"61","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["TA"],"abstract":"Almost half the number of Danish cancer patients are involved in alternative or \ncomplementary treatments while receiving conventional cancer treatment. reikihealing \nis one of the alternative treatments they often seek out. It is a treatment that \nhas a spiritual and holistic approach to both the person and the illness, claiming to \ntransmit energy from the hands of the healer to the one being healed. This creates \na contradiction with the concurrent use of conventional treatment which rests on \na biomedical understanding of cause and effect. In this context, the use of reikihealing \ncan be regarded as a kind of magical practice by cancer patients, who \nmight not necessarily share the same underlying worldview as the reiki-healer. The \nbasis for this article is a qualitative study called \u2018Reiki-healing as Experienced by \nCancer Patients\u2019, undertaken at the University of Copenhagen and financed by the \nDanish Cancer Foundation. Here the cancer patients reported their experiences \nduring reiki-healing and were asked to describe how they understood the treatment \nand what effects it had for them. Most of them referred to the healer as a gifted \nperson who has the power to influence their minds and bodies or, notably, the \nway they conceive of themselves. These statements support the interpretation of \nreiki-healing as a magical practice, which is characterized by the placement of \na magical agency as one of the components of a ritual \u2013 in this case, the healer. \nIf the cancer patient shares the same holistic approach as the healer, the use of \nreiki-healing can turn out to be a spiritual or religious coping strategy, which \nhelps the person to find meaning and support in times of crisis. In both examples, \nreiki-healing is used as a magical practise because of the opportunity it offers \nto influence the illness and life situation, which otherwise would be beyond the \nreach of conventional medicine. \nKeywords: Healing, reiki, religious coping, healing ritual, cancer \n\u00a0<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.7146\/ta.v0i61.106864","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,1]],"date-time":"2021-09-01T06:57:43Z","timestamp":1630479463000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["KR\u00c6FTPATIENTERS BRUG AF REIKI-HEALING SOM MAGISK PRAKSIS"],"prefix":"10.7146","author":[{"given":"Hanne Bess","family":"Boelsbjerg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"4226","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,1]]},"container-title":["Tidsskriftet Antropologi"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/tidsskrift.dk\/tidsskriftetantropologi\/article\/download\/106864\/156478","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/tidsskrift.dk\/tidsskriftetantropologi\/article\/download\/106864\/156478","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,1]],"date-time":"2021-09-01T06:58:48Z","timestamp":1630479528000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/tidsskrift.dk\/tidsskriftetantropologi\/article\/view\/106864"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"61","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,1]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7146\/ta.v0i61.106864","relation":{},"ISSN":["2596-5425","0906-3021"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2596-5425","type":"electronic"},{"value":"0906-3021","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,1]]}}}