Reinventing therapo-spiritual fellowships: The jolang'o in Luo African Independent Churches

Mental Health, Religion and Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 423-434

  Bethwell Owour, O ^a   Oketch Rabah, Hellen ^a   Kokwaro, John O ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ECLECTICISM; ETHNOLOGY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALING; KENYA; RELIGION; SOCIAL BELIEF; SPIRITUAL HEALING; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 33747140861     PISSN: 13674676     EISSN: 14699737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13694670500260660     Document Type: Article

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