Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield.

Culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2008], ©2008.

239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-229) and index.