1st Edition
Spirits with Scalpels The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
By Sidney M Greenfield
Copyright 2008
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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“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... Read more
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;
Biography
Greenfield, Sidney M
