Sidney M Greenfield

Spirits with Scalpels

The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious practitioners in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781598743678
• ISBN-10: 1598743678
• Artikelnr.: 23883229

Autorenporträt

Greenfield, Sidney M

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 101 Prologue
Chapter 102 ?
Chapter 103 An Invitation and Introduction
Part 1 Surgeries And Other Healing in Kardecist-Spiritism
Chapter 1 José Carlos Ribeiro
Chapter 2 Edson Queiroz
Chapter 3 Antonio de Oliveira Rios in Palmelo
Chapter 4 Mauricio Magalhães in Campo Grande
Chapter 5 Not All Patients Are Cured
Chapter 6 The Disobsession
Chapter 7 Healing and the Competition for Religious Converts
Part 2 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 3 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 Implementing Culturalbiological Healing
Chapter 18 Culturalbiology and the Marketplace of Religions in Brazil