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Informationen zum Autor Greenfield, Sidney M Klappentext Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious practitioners in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. Zusammenfassung Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious practitioners in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 101 Prologue; Chapter 102 ?; Chapter 103 An Invitation and Introduction; Part 1 Surgeries And Other Healing in Kardecist-Spiritism; Chapter 1 José Carlos Ribeiro; Chapter 2 Edson Queiroz; Chapter 3 Antonio de Oliveira Rios in Palmelo; Chapter 4 Mauricio Magalhães 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;
