RT Article
T1 La “energía” que crea y sana: representaciones corporales y prácticas terapéuticas en devotos de Sai Baba = The "Energy" that creates and heals : body representations and Therapeutic Practices in Sai Baba Devotees
JF Ciencias sociales y religión
VO 17
IS 22
SP 71
OP 89
A1 Puglisi, Rodolfo
LA Spanish
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784587141
AB This article emphasizes that the issues of health and illness always have a religious background. It also states that any religious doctrine imposes particular representations of body of which derive therapeutic practices structurally related to those. For the empirical appoggiatura of these arguments we describe the energy conception of the body that reigns within the devotees of Sai Baba Argentine groups, and then present the healer use of sacred ash known vibhuti. At this point, we emphasize the narrow relationships between the practical and the symbolic assumed by the Sai worship between body and world to inscribe them in the context of a holistic conception of a person that is widespread in different communities. Finally, comparing the data set with the doctrinal vision that sets the priority of the soul over the body materiality, we outline dual status granted to the body in the Sai movement.
K1 Body
K1 Health
K1 Holism
K1 Religion
DO 10.22456/1982-2650.55041