Spirits with scalpels :
Greenfield, Sidney M.
Spirits with scalpels : the cultural biology of religious healing in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield. - Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2008. - 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781598743678 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781598743685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008038167
Ethnobiology--Brazil.
Healing--Brazil.
Traditional medicine--Brazil.
Spirit possession--Brazil.
Brazil--Religious life and customs.
Brazil--Social life and customs.
GN564.B6 / G74 2008
306.6/0981
Spirits with scalpels : the cultural biology of religious healing in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield. - Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2008. - 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781598743678 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781598743685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008038167
Ethnobiology--Brazil.
Healing--Brazil.
Traditional medicine--Brazil.
Spirit possession--Brazil.
Brazil--Religious life and customs.
Brazil--Social life and customs.
GN564.B6 / G74 2008
306.6/0981