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  Depressive illness and Navajo healing

  Suggests that, despite the explicit role of the sacred in the religious healing interventions available to Navajo patients, differences between biomedical and religious healing systems maybe less significance than their shared existential engagement of problems such as those glossed as depression.
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  Rethinking the role of diagnosis in Navajo religious healing

  Examines the role of diagnosis in two Navajo religious healing traditions and examines a case study of diagnostic encounter between an NAC diagnostician and a Traditional patient.
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  Jesus, peyote, and the holy people: Alcohol abuse and the ethos of power in Navajo healing

  Examines the two more recent healing traditions as religious responses to the contemporary Navajo crisis of alcohol and substance abuse as well as to socioeconomics changes.
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  The whole universe is my cathedral: A contemporary Navajo spiritual synthesis

  Discusses the three major spiritual healing ways used by Navajo Indians today.
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  Identity and healing in three Navajo religious traditions: sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó

  Elucidate how the Navajo synthetic principle sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó (SNBH) is understood, demonstrated, and elaborated in three different Navajo healing traditions.