Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil

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Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil

Sidney M. Greenfield

Routledge, 2016, c2008

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Originally published: Left Coast Press, 2008

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-229) and index

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"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move...." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. This engrossing and provocative book will put students and scholars alike on the edge of their seats.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 101 Prologue
  • Chapter 102 ?
  • Chapter 103 An Invitation and Introduction
  • Part 1 Surgeries And Other Healing in Kardecist-Spiritism
  • Chapter 1 Jose Carlos Ribeiro
  • Chapter 2 Edson Queiroz
  • Chapter 3 Antonio de Oliveira Rios in Palmelo
  • Chapter 4 Mauricio Magalhaes in Campo Grande
  • Chapter 5 Not All Patients Are Cured
  • Chapter 6 The Disobsession
  • Chapter 7 Healing and the Competition for Religious Converts
  • Part 2 Healing by the Spirits in Other Brazilian Popular Religions
  • Chapter 8 Religion and Religious Diversity in Brazilian History
  • Chapter 9 Pilgrimage and Healing in "Popular" Catholicism
  • Chapter 10 Healing by the Spirits in the African-Derived Traditions
  • Chapter 11 Healing in Umbanda
  • Chapter 12 Evangelicals and Healing by the Holy Ghost
  • Chapter 13 Healing in the Competitive Religious Marketplace
  • Part 3 Spirits, Healing, and a New Paradigm
  • Chapter 14 Healing by Spirits and Science
  • Chapter 15 Science as a Cultural Process
  • Chapter 16 Communication, Information Flow, and a New Paradigm
  • Chapter 17 Ritual, Altered States of Consciousness, and Implementing Culturalbiological Healing
  • Chapter 18 Culturalbiology and the Marketplace of Religions in Brazil

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