An edition of Spirits with scalpels: the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil
(2008)
Spirits with scalpels
the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil
by Sidney M. Greenfield
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Religious life and customs, Social life and customs, Traditional medicine, Ethnobiology, Spirit possession, Healing, Traditional medicine, south america, Brazil, social life and customs, Brazil, religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Sociology of Religion, Manners and customs, Geistheilung, Volksmedizin, Religiöses Bewusstsein, Spiritual Therapies, Religion, Operative Surgical ProceduresPlaces
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Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
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Spirits with scalpels: the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil
2008, Left Coast Press
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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