A deceased doctor healing the living in the enchanted world of the Brazilian Northeast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18979025 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sidney Greenfield (0000-0001-6425-7989, University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee New York New York USA, corresponding author), Antônio Mourão Cavalcante ((Formerly of) Faculty of Medicine Federal University of Ceará , Fortaleza Ceará Brazil.) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-14 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology of Consciousness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-4202 • E-ISSN: 1556-3537 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/anoc.12223 |
| OpenAlex | W4389778841 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The theme of this paper is that people in Northeast Brazil refuse to let a good person who helped them during his (or her) lifetime die. They do this through several of the religious traditions practiced in the region. Beings, human and other, now in another plane of reality established in modern thinking, cross the conceptual divide and return through mediums or other intermediaries to heal the living. We examine two religious traditions, “folk” or “popular” Catholicism and Kardecist‐Spiritism, focusing on the spirit of Argeu Hebster, a medical doctor who lived in the municipality of Marangaupe in the state of Ceará until his death in 1977. The return of the doctor is told in stories told to the authors while doing ethnography that provide the data used in analyzing the enchanted worlds of the two religions
Ethnography · Intermediary · Religious experience · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Philosophy · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |