Spirits and spiritist therapy in Southern Brazil
A case study of an innovative, syncretic healing group
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18930516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sidney Greenfield (0000-0001-6425-7989, University School of Milwaukee, corresponding author), Sidney M Greenfield |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-51 |
| Publication date | 1992-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Medicine and Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-005X • E-ISSN: 1573-076X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf00054438 |
| PMID | 1311228 |
| OpenAlex | W2038505089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 19 |
Aesthetics · Art · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social Representations and Identity
The construction of meaning in religious healing
Reasons and Expectations for Seeking Spiritual Treatment in Brazilian Spiritist Centers
Establishing the John of God Movement in Australia
Seeking healing transnationally
Mental and Physical Health and Spiritual Healing
A construção do sentido nos tratamentos religiosos
Syncretism and racism in “esoteric” Umbanda
Experiência de doença e narrativa
Religião e cura
A Hospital on the Spiritual Plane
Healing and Therapeutic Trajectories Among the Spirit Mediums of the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
The significance of belief and expectancy within the spiritual healing encounter
Culture and therapy
Exorcists, psychiatrists, and the problems of possession in northwest Madagascar
Quêtes transnationales de médecines « traditionnelles
Aflição, conforto e cobrança
Videos
Blood, Oil, Honey, and Water
Patient Preparation and Perceived Outcomes of Spiritist Healing in Brazil
Practice, Performance, and Experience in Ritual Healing
From Affliction to Affirmation
Spirit Possession Revisited
Our Science is Better than Yours
Making Selves and Meeting Others in Neo-Shamanic Healing
Buddhism By Other Means
Caciquismo and Coronelismo
The rhetoric of transformation in ritual healing
In Search of White Crows
The African religions of Brazil
The Patron-dependant Relationship in Brazil
The return of Dr Fritz
The Structure of Brazilian Development
Turner and Anti-Turner in the image of Christian pilgrimage in Brazil
Ritual and Conformity
Patronage, Politics, and the Articulation of Local Community and National Society in Pre-1968 Brazil
O mundo invisível
Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health
Spiritualism and Society
Trance, Healing and Hallucination
Disobsessing Disobsession
Coronelismo
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |