Spirits with Scalpels : The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil.
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Spirits with Scalpels : The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil.
Yazar:
Greenfield, Sidney M.
ISBN:
9781598747409
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1 online resource (241 pages)
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Contents -- Prologue -- Map -- An Invitation and Introduction -- Part I. Surgeries and Other Healing in Kardecist-Spiritism -- Chapter 1. José Carlos Ribeiro: An Introduction to Spiritist Therapy -- Chapter 2. Edson Queiroz: Spirit Surgeries in Recife -- Chapter 3. Antonio de Oliveira Rios in Palmelo -- Chapter 4. Mauricio Magalhães in Campo Grande -- Chapter 5. Not All Patients Are Cured: Kardecism's Approach to Death and Dying -- Chapter 6. The Disobsession: Another Form of Spiritist Treatment -- Chapter 7. Healing and the Competition for Religious Converts -- Part II. Healing by the Spirits in Other Brazilian Popular Religions -- Chapter 8. Religion and Religious Diversity in Brazilian History -- Chapter 9. Pilgrimage and Healing in "Popular" Catholicism -- Chapter 10. Healing by the Spirits in the African-Derived Traditions -- Chapter 11. Healing in Umbanda -- Chapter 12. Evangelicals and Healing by the Holy Ghost -- Chapter 13. Healing in the Competitive Religious Marketplace -- Part III. Spirits, Healing, and a New Paradigm -- Chapter 14. Healing by Spirits and Science -- Chapter 15. Science as a Cultural Process -- Chapter 16. Communication, Information Flow, and a New Paradigm -- Chapter 17. Ritual, Altered States of Consciousness, and Culturalbiological Healing -- Chapter 18. Culturalbiology and the Marketplace of Religion in Brazil -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Özet:
"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 riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses 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 students and scholars alike on the edge of their seats.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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