Spirits with scalpels
Subtitle: the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil
By: Sidney M. Greenfield.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781598743678; 9781598743685
Subjects: Ethnobiology -- Brazil; Healing -- Brazil; Traditional medicine -- Brazil; Spirit possession -- Brazil; Brazil -- Religious life and customs; Brazil -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: José Carlos Ribeiro : an introduction to spiritist therapy; title: Edson Queiroz : spirit surgeries in Recife; title: Antonio de Oliveira rios in Palmelo; title: Mauricio Maglhães in Campo Grande; title: Not all patients are cured : Kardecism's approach to death and dying; title: The disobsession : another form of spiritist treatment; title: Healing and the competition for religious converts; title: Religion and religious diversity in the context of Brazilian history; title: Pilgrimage and healing in "popular" catholicism; title: Healing by the spirits in the African derived traditions; title: Umbanda; title: Evangelicals and healing by the Holy Ghost; title: Healing in the competitive religious marketplace; title: Healing by spirits and science; title: Science as a cultural process; title: Communication, information flow, and a new paradigm; title: Ritual, altered states of consciousness and; title: Culturalbiological healing; title: Culturalbiology and the marketplace of religion in Brazil.