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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458051103321

Autore

Greenfield Sidney M.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41984-X

1-315-41985-8

1-59874-740-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

306.6/0981

306.60981

Soggetti

Ethnobiology - Brazil

Healing - Brazil

Traditional medicine - Brazil

Spirit possession - Brazil

Electronic books.

Brazil Religious life and customs

Brazil Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Prologue; Map; An Invitation and Introduction; Part I. Surgeries and Other Healing in Kardecist-Spiritism; Chapter 1. José Carlos Ribeiro: An Introduction to Spiritist Therapy; Chapter 2. Edson Queiroz: Spirit Surgeries in Recife; Chapter 3. Antonio de Oliveira Rios in Palmelo; Chapter 4. Mauricio Magalhães in Campo Grande; Chapter 5. Not All Patients Are Cured: Kardecism's Approach to Death and Dying; Chapter 6. The Disobsession: Another Form of Spiritist Treatment; Chapter 7. Healing and the Competition for Religious Converts

Part II. 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 III. 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 Cultural biological Healing; Chapter 18. Cultural biology and the Marketplace of Religion in Brazil; Postscript; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move...." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to

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Record Nr.

UNISA996466233503316

Titolo

Intelligence and Security Informatics [[electronic resource] ] : 12th Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2017, Jeju Island, South Korea, May 23, 2017, Proceedings / / edited by G. Alan Wang, Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-57463-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 151 p. 55 illus.)

Collana

Security and Cryptology ; ; 10241

Disciplina

005.8

Soggetti

Computer security

Computers and civilization

Computers

Law and legislation

Computer communication systems

Application software

Artificial intelligence

Systems and Data Security

Computers and Society

Legal Aspects of Computing

Computer Communication Networks

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)



Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2017, held in Jeju Island, South Korea, in May 2017 in conjunction with PAKDD 2017, the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. The 8 revised full papers and one short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The papers cover topics such as information access and security, cybersecurity and infrastructure protection, data and text mining, and network based data analytics.