How did meditation move from the religious margins of American culture to mainstream biomedicine? Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine traces the religious history of mind-body healing from nineteenth-century religious movements led largely by white women, to several African American religious movements, to early public-health initiatives, to the modern “mindfulness” industry. It also explores what got lost along the way.

Rev. Dr. Wakoh Shannon Hickey, BCC (she/her)
Rev. Dr. Wakoh Shannon Hickey, BCC, is a Board-Certified Chaplain (interfaith); a scholar of religions; a Candidate for UU ministry, scheduled to see the Ministerial Fellowship Committee in September; and a priest of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, which she has practiced for 40-pus years. Wakoh has taught college and served as a chaplain in university, hospital, palliative-care, and hospice settings. FMI: www.interfaithspiritualcare.net

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