John of God - The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing

Zusatztext This is one of the most insightful and engaging accounts of spiritual healing in recent years. By focusing on one of the most intriguing spiritual healers of our time, João de Deus, Rocha illuminates the enduring relevance, despite significant secularization in the West, of curing through faith. This book belongs on the top shelf of everyone interested in 21st-century religion, spirituality and globalization. Informationen zum Autor Cristina Rocha is Associate Professor, Australia Research Council Future Fellow, and Director of the Religion and Society Research at Western Sydney University, Australia. Klappentext This book investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics. Zusammenfassung This book investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: Cristina Rocha, Cristina (Associate Professor and Arc Futur Rocha, Rocha Cristina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780190466701
• ISBN: 978-0-19-046670-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, Spiritualism, Alternative belief systems