{"id":911,"date":"2011-02-28T02:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/?p=911"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:06:28","slug":"is-faith-healing-a-superstition-marathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"is faith healing a superstition? (marathi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Centre for Advocacy in Mental Health- Bapu trust<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Pune, Maharashtra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language<\/strong>: Hindi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Is Curing Illeness through Religious Faith a Superstition?<\/p>\n<p>We Do Not Think So<\/p>\n<p>Being persecuted by ghosts or possessed by a spirit is not a superstition, neither is it an illness. It is a means adopted by society to understand and cope with mental illness or misfortune.<\/p>\n<p>Being \u2018possessed by a spirit\u2019 results in certain physiological\u00a0 and emotional changes. This results in a person \u2018feeling better\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Places of religious pilgrimage, where illnesses are cured, are a source of support for society.\u00a0 People with mental troubles or pain come here out of faith.<\/p>\n<p>Persons suffering from mental illness can visit such places where illnesses are cured by faith, without shame and express their feelings.<\/p>\n<p>A research center of <em>Bapu Trust<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Konark Pooram, Kondhwa Khurd<\/p>\n<p>Pune 411 048 Maharashtra<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camhindia.org\/\">www.camhindia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>E-mail:wamhc@vsnl.net;info@camhindia.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Centre for Advocacy in Mental Health- Bapu trust Location: Pune, Maharashtra Language: Hindi Translation: Is Curing Illeness through Religious Faith a Superstition? We Do Not Think So Being persecuted by ghosts or possessed by a spirit is not a superstition, neither is it an illness. It is a means adopted by society to understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[125,126,824,129,72,195,127,821,128],"series":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-poster-women-archive","tag-bapu-trust","tag-centre-for-advocacy-in-mental-health","tag-health","tag-maharashtra","tag-marathi","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-poster-women-archive","tag-pune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}