Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
By Loring M. Danforth (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) “If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don’t feel the fire as if it were your enemy,” says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a … Continued