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Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil
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- Creator
- Sidney M. Greenfield
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781598743678, 1598743678, 9781598743685, 1598743686
- OCLC
- ocn227015864
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Ethnobiology -- Brazil.
- Healing -- Brazil.
- Traditional medicine -- Brazil.
- Spirit possession -- Brazil.
- Spiritual Therapies -- Brazil.
Medical Subject Heading
- Religion -- Brazil.
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- Surgical Procedures, Operative -- Brazil.
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- Brazil -- Religious life and customs.
- Brazil -- Social life and customs.