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John of God : the globalization of Brazilian faith healing / Cristina Rocha.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rocha, Cristina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faria, João Teixeira da, 1942-.
- Faria, João Teixeira da.
- Spiritual healing and spiritualism--Brazil.
- Spiritual healing and spiritualism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This work investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics.
- Contents:
- Meeting John of God: an uneasy beginning
- How does he get his magic?
- Re-enchanting healing
- Abadiânia as a touristic borderzone
- Spiritual tourism, cultural translation, and friction
- Flows into the global north: building a transnational spiritual community
- Localizing flows: healing the land of its suffering.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780190466732
- 0190466731
- 9780190466749
- 019046674X
- 9780190466725
- 0190466723
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