Social Dimensions of Health
Ritual Practice, Moral Orders, and Worlds of Meaning in Brazilian Candomblé and Umbanda Temples
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2262408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markus Wiencke (0000-0002-6193-585X, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author), Wiencke Markus (Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-173 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| 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.12123 |
| OpenAlex | W3090250844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In Western medicine the interpretation prevails that mental illness is a psychological and/or biological disorder. Most important concepts in health psychology, such as sense of coherence, self-efficacy, hope, or dispositional optimism are all very cognition and individual centered. In this individualized perspective, mental illness is constructed in such a way that it can be treated in a dyadic doctor-patient or therapist-patient relationship with the help of drugs or therapeutic techniques. In this article, I would like to develop a contrasting social construction of mental illness. In Umbanda and Candomblé temples in Brazil, what is interpreted in the Western model as illness is understood as a "spiritual problem." Here, the individual is constructed in relationship to the community, and individual health and healing is footed in moral-spiritual orders. In presenting the details of my investigation, I will apply Grawe's common factors as a foil for developing the link between mental illness and its social context
Cognition · Context (archaeology · Interpretation (philosophy · Meaning (existential · Mental health · Mental illness · Optimism · Perspective (graphical · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · History · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
Spirit Possession, Modernity, and Power in Africa
Familie als ritueller Lebensraum
Effects of optimism on psychological and physical well-being
The many methods of religious coping
Coping
Social representations
Das Soziale als Ritual
Interests, Relationships, Identities
The will and the ways
Extensionen afrikanischer Kulturen in Brasilien
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |