Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil

Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield.

"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move ..." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a rivetin...

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Main Author: Greenfield, Sidney M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Ethnobiology > Brazil.
Healing > Brazil.
Traditional medicine > Brazil.
Spirit possession > Brazil.
Spiritual healing.
Religion.
Surgery, Operative.
religion (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Surgery, Operative
Spiritual healing
Religion
Ethnobiology
Healing
Manners and customs
Spirit possession
Traditional medicine
Geistheilung
Volksmedizin
Religiöses Bewusstsein
Geistheilung.
Volksmedizin.
Religiöses Bewusstsein.
Brazil > Religious life and customs.
Brazil > Social life and customs.
Brazil
Brasilien
Brasilien.
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Table of Contents:
  • José Carlos Ribeiro : an introduction to spiritist therapy
  • Edson Queiroz : spirit surgeries in Recife
  • Antonio de Oliveira rios in Palmelo
  • Mauricio Maglhães in Campo Grande
  • Not all patients are cured : Kardecism's approach to death and dying
  • The disobsession : another form of spiritist treatment
  • Healing and the competition for religious converts
  • Religion and religious diversity in the context of Brazilian history
  • Pilgrimage and healing in "popular" catholicism
  • Healing by the spirits in the African derived traditions
  • Umbanda
  • Evangelicals and healing by the Holy Ghost
  • Healing in the competitive religious marketplace
  • Healing by spirits and science
  • Science as a cultural process
  • Communication, information flow, and a new paradigm
  • Ritual, altered states of consciousness and
  • Culturalbiological healing
  • Culturalbiology and the marketplace of religion in Brazil.

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