John of God
Subtitle: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780190466701
Subjects: Spiritual healing; Spiritualism; Brazil, religion
Description: 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.