A Brazilian Challenge to Lewis's Explanation of Cult Mediumship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12542011
AutoresJames M Donovan (0000-0003-4336-0658, University of Kentucky, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas361-377
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1353-7903 • E-ISSN: 1469-9419
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713676036
OpenAlexW2097180763
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas34

Recruitment into peripheral possession trance cults has been explained as attempts to compensate for socio-economic deprivation and jural impotence. This model, best developed by I. M. Lewis, is reviewed and its predictions are tested against two types of Brazilian data. Firstly, national census gures of religious af liation are compared with measures of socio-economic stress for a diachronic analysis. A second, synchronic analysis involves 62 respondents in Rio de Janeiro who completed questionnaires on socio-economic status, cultic af liation, and perceptions of stress and gender inequality. The results offer only weak support for Lewis's original model, which may therefore pro t from supplementation from other theoretical perspectives

Census · Cult · Inequality · Perception · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Sociology · Trance · Anthropology · Demography · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology