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Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenfield, Sidney M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnobiology--Brazil.
- Ethnobiology.
- Healing--Brazil.
- Healing.
- Traditional medicine--Brazil.
- Traditional medicine.
- Spirit possession.
- Brazil.
- Spirit possession--Brazil.
- Brazil--Religious life and customs.
- Brazil--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Religion.
- Surgical Procedures, Operative.
- Medical Subjects:
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Brazil.
- Religion.
- Surgical Procedures, Operative.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Drawing from decades of fieldwork among healers and patients, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of science, spirituality, and cross-cultural experience. He tackles the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. This engrossing and provocative book will put all readers on the edge of their seats and is ideal for courses in anthropology, religion, alternative medicine, and qualitative health research.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781598743678
- 1598743678
- 9781598743685
- 1598743686
- OCLC:
- 227015864
- Publisher Number:
- 99941307195
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