Benzedeiras: Lights and Shadows of the Religious Healing Practice in Brazilian Folk Catholicism
This article presents field research-based reflections on the socio-cultural contexts of religious healing practices in Brazilian folk Catholicism performed by traditional local blessing-givers (bendezeiras). Recognizing both illness and healing as socio-cultural processes and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego
2019
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Studia religiologica
Year: 2019, Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 191-204 |
| Further subjects: | B
Popular Catholicism
B religious healing / Brazylia B Benzedeiras B Brazil B religijne uzdrawianie B katolicyzm ludowy |
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| Summary: | This article presents field research-based reflections on the socio-cultural contexts of religious healing practices in Brazilian folk Catholicism performed by traditional local blessing-givers (bendezeiras). Recognizing both illness and healing as socio-cultural processes and religion as an important key to understanding Brazilian culture and society, I concentrate on depicting impor-tant characteristics of the benzedeiras’ practice, concentrating on “lights” (positive aspects) and “shadows” – adverse factors limiting the possibilities of intergenerational transmission in spite of the continuing popularity and symbolic effectiveness of benzedeiras’ religious healing in Brazil. |
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| ISSN: | 2084-4077 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia religiologica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4467/20844077SR.19.014.11373 |