Spirits with Scalpels The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil

Name: Spirits with Scalpels The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
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ISBN: 9781598743685

ISBN-10: 1598743686

ISBN-13: 9781598743685

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sidney M. Greenfield

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Prologue



Map


An Invitation and Introduction



Surgeries and Other Healing in Kardecist-Spiritism



Jose Carlos Ribeiro: An Introduction to Spiritist Therapy




Edson Queiroz: Spirit Surgeries in Recife




Antonio de Oliveira Rios in Palmelo




Mauricio Magalhaes 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



Healing by the Spirits in Other Brazilian Popular Religions



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



Spirits, Healing, and a New Paradigm



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


Postscript


Notes


References


Index