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Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greenfield, Sidney M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Ethnobiology > Brazil. Healing > Brazil. Traditional medicine > Brazil. Spirit possession > Brazil. Brazil > Religious life and customs. Brazil > Social life and customs.

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 Brazilian history
Pilgrimage and healing in "popular" catholicism
Healing by the spirits in the African derived traditions
Healing in 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.