TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenfield,Sidney M.
TI  - Spirits with scalpels: the cultural biology of religious healing in Brazil 
SN  - 9781598743678 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - GN564.B6 G74 2008
U1  - 306.6/0981 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Walnut Creek, CA
PB  - Left Coast Press
KW  - Ethnobiology
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Healing
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Spirit possession
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008038167.html
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31745
ER  -