Spirits with scalpels

the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil

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Spirits with scalpels

the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil

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Publisher
Left Coast Press
Language
English
Pages
239

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Cover of: Spirits with Scalpels
Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Spirits with Scalpels
Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Spirits with Scalpels
Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Spirits with Scalpels
Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Spirits with scalpels
Spirits with scalpels: the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil
2008, Left Coast Press
in English

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Walnut Creek, CA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.6/0981
Library of Congress
GN564.B6 G74 2008, GN564.B6G74 2008, GN564.B6 G74 2008eb, RZ400 G74 2008, RZ400 .G74 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
239

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22514261M
Internet Archive
spiritswithscalp00gree
ISBN 13
9781598743678, 9781598743685
LCCN
2008038167
OCLC/WorldCat
647881040, 227015864
Library Thing
7851929
Goodreads
3419705

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