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The goal of this study was to assess the effect of intercessory prayer in the psychological, spiritual and biological scores of breast cancer patients who are undergoing radiotherapy. Double-blind RCT comprising a sample of 31 participants (15 in the Control Group and 16 in the Intervention Group). Data collection was performed in three time points (T0, T1 and T2). Significant changes have been identified in the intra-group analysis, concerning the decrease in spiritual distress score; negative religious/spiritual coping prevailed, while the total religious/spiritual coping increased between the posttest T2 to T0. Intercessory prayer was effective in religious and spiritual scores.
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Adaptation, Psychological , Amylases/metabolism , Breast Neoplasms/psychology , Breast Neoplasms/radiotherapy , Depression/psychology , Faith Healing/psychology , Spirituality , Adult , Anxiety , Breast Neoplasms/metabolism , Double-Blind Method , Faith Healing/statistics & numerical data , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Outcome Assessment, Health Care , Quality of Life , Religion and Medicine , Spiritual Therapies/methods , Spiritual Therapies/psychology , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: This study examines relationships between religious beliefs regarding the origin of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and posttraumatic symptomatology as well as depressive symptoms and resilience among its survivors. METHOD: We used convenient sampling to recruit participants (n=167). They completed six scales, which had been translated into Haitian Creole, including measures such as the Earthquake Experiences Exposure (EEE), the Peritraumatic Distress Inventory (PDI), the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experience Questionnaire (PDEQ), the PTSD Checklist (PTSD-CL), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD- RISC) RESULTS: Among our participants, 51% were male, (mean age=30.5, SD=11.03), 92% (n=155) were believers in some sort of supernatural force and 65% (n=108) endorsed the earthquake as a natural phenomenon. There was significant difference in average scores at peritraumatic distress, PTSD symptoms and Resilience measures between those perceiving a divine origin and/or a punishment through the event and those who did not. Peritraumatic responses were best predictors for PTSD (ß=.366, p<.001) and Depression symptoms (ß=.384, p<.001). Voodoo adherents appeared to be vulnerable to depression, but reported superior resilience factors.
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Depression/psychology , Faith Healing/psychology , Resilience, Psychological , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/psychology , Survivors/psychology , Adult , Depression/diagnosis , Depression/epidemiology , Earthquakes , Faith Healing/statistics & numerical data , Female , Haiti/epidemiology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Risk Factors , Socioeconomic Factors , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/diagnosis , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/epidemiology , Surveys and Questionnaires , Survivors/statistics & numerical data , Young AdultABSTRACT
Este estudo objetiva investigar como as crenças religiosas, espirituais, e a fé do idoso podem contribuir para o enfrentamento de desafios advindos das feridas crônicas. Trata-se de um estudo do tipo descritivo observacional, com delineamento transversal e abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa. Os resultados permitiram identificar que os idosos portadores de feridas crônicas, além de recorrem à ajuda médica, valem-se da sua religiosidade e fé em busca da cura e da melhoria da sua qualidade de vida.
This study aims to investigate how religious beliefs, spiritual and elderly faith can help address challenges arising from chronic wounds. It is a study of observational descriptive, cross-sectional design and qualitative and quantitative approach. The results showed that elderly people with chronic wounds, and turn to medical help, avail themselves of their religiosity and faith in search of healing and improving their quality of life.
Este estudio pretende investigar cómo las creencias religiosas, la fe espiritual y la fe de los ancianos pueden ayudar a enfrentar los desafíos que surgen de las heridas crónicas. Se trata de un estudio de observación descriptiva, diseño transversal y enfoque cualitativo y cuantitativo. Los resultados mostraron que las personas mayores con heridas crónicas, y recurren a la asistencia médica, se valen de su religiosidad y fe en la búsqueda de la curación y mejorar su calidad de vida.
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Humans , Male , Female , Middle Aged , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Social Support , Faith Healing/psychology , Pressure Ulcer/therapy , Religion , Activities of Daily Living , Cross-Sectional Studies , Sickness Impact Profile , Spirituality , Qualitative ResearchSubject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Faith Healing/psychology , Faith Healing/trends , Faith Healing , Religion and MedicineSubject(s)
Male , Female , Humans , Faith Healing/psychology , Faith Healing/trends , Faith Healing , Religion and MedicineABSTRACT
Cuban-Kongo praise of the dead in Havana turns insistently around complex agglomerations of materials called "prendas,""ngangas," and "enquisos." This article addresses the ontological status of "prendas-ngangas-enquisos," which practitioners of Cuban-Kongo affliction practices care for as entities that determine the very possibility of their healing and harming craft. Cuban-Kongo societies of affliction, in Havana collectively referred to as "Palo," stake their claim to influence others in and through these entities. In this essay I seek to position the influence generated in prendas-ngangas-enquisos as a problem for Euro-American materialism, to be addressed not through symbolic or representational solutions but, rather, by refocusing the problem itself via alternate distributions of its epistemological, historical, and ethnographic elements. Contextualized within ethnographic description, I first propose that prendas-ngangas-enquisos do not conform to dialectical logic, and should thus be positioned conceptually as something other than "objects" or "fetishes." From there, I consider Creole turns on the term prenda and explore scholarly accounts of 19th-century Cuban slavery and manumission, which I place alongside what is known about pawn slavery among BaKongo people prior to and during the Atlantic slave trade. Having established a basic series of conceptual and historiographic coordinates, I then suggest ethnographically how prendas-ngangas-enquisos come to command others, thereby guaranteeing Cuban-Kongo healing and harming sovereignty in Cuba today.
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Anthropology, Cultural , Ethnicity , Faith Healing , Hierarchy, Social , Mortuary Practice , Anthropology, Cultural/education , Anthropology, Cultural/history , Ceremonial Behavior , Cuba/ethnology , Death , Ethnicity/education , Ethnicity/ethnology , Ethnicity/history , Ethnicity/legislation & jurisprudence , Ethnicity/psychology , Faith Healing/history , Faith Healing/psychology , History, 16th Century , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Medicine, Traditional/history , Medicine, Traditional/psychology , Mortuary Practice/education , Mortuary Practice/history , Social Behavior , Social Conditions/economics , Social Conditions/history , Social Conditions/legislation & jurisprudence , SymbolismABSTRACT
Analisamos os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre as práticas de cura místico-religiosas (Evangélicas e Católica Renovadas e Umbanda) e sua comparação com o tratamento dos Ambulatórios de Saúde Mental públicos, para indivíduos com queixas de sofrimento psíquico. A análise estatística revelou que as práticas de cura místico-religiosas são eficazes na solução dos problemas que as procuraram, superando, a curto prazo, a eficácia obtida pelas práticas ambulatoriais. As práticas de cura místico-religiosas parecem funcionar como ortopedias das "doenças" do individualismo contemporâneo, repondo com meios sintônicos aos sintomas alguma funcionalidade da categoria indivíduo. Como desdobramento da análise chegamos à hipótese sobre a existência de uma "Cultura do Misticismo" em estado avançado de formação no contexto brasileiro, como conseqüência das características culturais e dos efeitos da perturbação das relações do sujeito com o campo do simbólico, nas sociedades de consumo globalizado.
We have analyzed the results of an inquiry about mystic-religious cure practices (within both Protestant and Renovated Catholic Churches, as well as Umbanda afro-american spiritualism). Along with the comparison between those results and treatment, in Mental Health public nurseries, of individuals complaining from mental discomfort. The statistic analysis revealed mystic-religious cure practices are efficacious at the solution of problems from those who recurred to these practices, overcoming, in the short term, the efficacy obtained by the nurserial practices. Mystic-religious cure practices seem to function like contemporary individualism "illnesses" orthopedia, restoring, with sintony to the symptoms, some individual category's functionality. As the survey unfolds, we came to the hypothesis about the existence of a "Mysticism Culture", in advanced stage of formation within the Brazilian context, as a consequence of cultural features, as well as of the effects from subjective relation disturbances towards the symbolic field, inside globalized consummation societies.
Nous avons analysé les résultats d'une recherché sur les pratiques de guérison mystico-religieuses (chez les Églises Évangéliques et Catholique Renovée, et chez l'Oumbanda). Ainsi que leur comparaison avec le traitement fourni, chez les Ambulatoires de Santé Mentale publiques, aux individus se plaignant de souffrance psychique. L'analyse statistique a révélé que les pratiques de guérison mystico-religieuses sont efficaces à la solution des problèmes de ceux qui les ont cherché, en surmontant, dans le court délai, l'efficacité obtenue par les pratiques ambulatoriales. Les pratiques de guérison mystico-religieuses semblent fonctioner comme des orthopédies des "maladies" de l'individualisme contemporain, en réinstallant, par des moyens syntoniques, quelque fonctionalité de la catégorie individu. Comme suite de l'analyse, nous arrivons à l'hypothèse sur l'existence d'une "Culture du Mysticisme" en état avancé de formation dans le contexte brésilien, comme conséquence des caractéristiques culturelles et des effets de la perturbation des rapports du sujet avec le domaine du symbolique, dans les sociétés de consommation mondialisées.
Analizamos los resultados de una investigación acerca de las prácticas curativas místico-religiosas (católicas y evangélicas renovadas, y Umbanda). Y su comparación con el tratamiento los Ambulatorios de la Salud Mental públicos, para las personas con las quejas de sufrimiento psíquico. El análisis estadístico mostró que las prácticas de curación místico-religiosas son eficaces en la solución de los problemas que las procuram, superando , en corto plazo, la eficacia obtenida por las prácticas de los Ambulatorios. Las prácticas curativas místico-religiosas parecen actuar como ortopedias de "enfermedades" del individualismo contemporáneo, sustituiendo con medios sintônicos a los síntomas alguna funcionalidad de la categoria individuo. Cómo desdoblamiento del análisis hemos llegado a la hipótesis sobre la existencia de una "cultura del misticismo" en una fase avanzada de su formación en el contexto brasileño, como consecuencia de las características culturales y de los efectos de la perturbación de las relaciones de los indivíduos con el campo del Simbólico, en las sociedades de consumo globalizado.
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Faith Healing/psychology , Individuation , Mental Health , Mysticism/psychology , Psychotherapy , Religion and PsychologyABSTRACT
Analisamos os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre as práticas de cura místico-religiosas (Evangélicas e Católica Renovadas e Umbanda) e sua comparação com o tratamento dos Ambulatórios de Saúde Mental públicos, para indivíduos com queixas de sofrimento psíquico. A análise estatística revelou que as práticas de cura místico-religiosas são eficazes na solução dos problemas que as procuraram, superando, a curto prazo, a eficácia obtida pelas práticas ambulatoriais. As práticas de cura místico-religiosas parecem funcionar como ortopedias das 'doenças' do individualismo contemporâneo, repondo com meios sintônicos aos sintomas alguma funcionalidade da categoria indivíduo. Como desdobramento da análise chegamos à hipótese sobre a existência de uma 'Cultura do Misticismo' em estado avançado de formação no contexto brasileiro, como conseqüência das características culturais e dos efeitos da perturbação das relações do sujeito com o campo do simbólico, nas sociedades de consumo globalizado(AU)
We have analyzed the results of an inquiry about mystic-religious cure practices (within both Protestant and Renovated Catholic Churches, as well as Umbanda afro-american spiritualism). Along with the comparison between those results and treatment, in Mental Health public nurseries, of individuals complaining from mental discomfort. The statistic analysis revealed mystic-religious cure practices are efficacious at the solution of problems from those who recurred to these practices, overcoming, in the short term, the efficacy obtained by the nurserial practices. Mystic-religious cure practices seem to function like contemporary individualism 'illnesses' orthopedia, restoring, with sintony to the symptoms, some individual category's functionality. As the survey unfolds, we came to the hypothesis about the existence of a 'Mysticism Culture', in advanced stage of formation within the Brazilian context, as a consequence of cultural features, as well as of the effects from subjective relation disturbances towards the symbolic field, inside globalized consummation societies(AU)
Nous avons analysé les résultats d'une recherché sur les pratiques de guérison mystico-religieuses (chez les Églises Évangéliques et Catholique Renovée, et chez l'Oumbanda). Ainsi que leur comparaison avec le traitement fourni, chez les Ambulatoires de Santé Mentale publiques, aux individus se plaignant de souffrance psychique. L'analyse statistique a révélé que les pratiques de guérison mystico-religieuses sont efficaces à la solution des problèmes de ceux qui les ont cherché, en surmontant, dans le court délai, l'efficacité obtenue par les pratiques ambulatoriales. Les pratiques de guérison mystico-religieuses semblent fonctioner comme des orthopédies des 'maladies' de l'individualisme contemporain, en réinstallant, par des moyens syntoniques, quelque fonctionalité de la catégorie individu. Comme suite de l'analyse, nous arrivons à l'hypothèse sur l'existence d'une 'Culture du Mysticisme' en état avancé de formation dans le contexte brésilien, comme conséquence des caractéristiques culturelles et des effets de la perturbation des rapports du sujet avec le domaine du symbolique, dans les sociétés de consommation mondialisées(AU)
Analizamos los resultados de una investigación acerca de las prácticas curativas místico-religiosas (católicas y evangélicas renovadas, y Umbanda). Y su comparación con el tratamiento los Ambulatorios de la Salud Mental públicos, para las personas con las quejas de sufrimiento psíquico. El análisis estadístico mostró que las prácticas de curación místico-religiosas son eficaces en la solución de los problemas que las procuram, superando , en corto plazo, la eficacia obtenida por las prácticas de los Ambulatorios. Las prácticas curativas místico-religiosas parecen actuar como ortopedias de 'enfermedades' del individualismo contemporáneo, sustituiendo con medios sintônicos a los síntomas alguna funcionalidad de la categoria individuo. Cómo desdoblamiento del análisis hemos llegado a la hipótesis sobre la existencia de una 'cultura del misticismo' en una fase avanzada de su formación en el contexto brasileño, como consecuencia de las características culturales y de los efectos de la perturbación de las relaciones de los indivíduos con el campo del Simbólico, en las sociedades de consumo globalizado(AU)
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Mysticism/psychology , Psychotherapy , Mental Health , Religion and Psychology , Individuation , Faith Healing/psychologyABSTRACT
Este artigo busca analisar algumas relações estabelecidas entre as transformações socioculturais ocorridas na contemporaneidade e a demanda de cura nas igrejas neopentecostais. A demanda de cura é apresentada como um dispositivo ou campo de força agenciador de processos ou modos de subjetivação. Os modos de subjetivação nas igrejas neopentecostais evidenciam a constituição do sujeito a partir de uma relação de causalidade direta entre os campos de flexão ou curvatura da fé e da ética. Se a demanda de cura é potencializada pela experiência da fé, por outro lado, os imperativos éticos moldam e limitam as condições para o processo de subjetivação do fiel. Não sendo possível a sustentação das promessas de cura veiculadas pelas igrejas neopentecostais dada a condição estrutural do desamparo humano, busca-se uma articulação possível entre a permanência da demanda de cura e a condição masoquista. O que se desvela nessa relação é o princípio da promessa sem cumprimento, ou seja, exatamente porque não se cumpre é que se sustenta uma posição subjetiva de sempre demandar.
The purpose of this article is to analyze some relationships which have been established between contemporary socio-cultural transformations and the demand for cures in neo-Petencostal churches. The demand for cures appears to be a stratagem or a field force promoting processes or modes of subjectivity. The modes of subjectivity in the neo-Pentecostal churches give evidence to the constitution of the subject starting from a direct relationship of causality between the fields of the flexion or the curvature of faith and ethics. If, on the one hand, the demand for a cure is potential by the faith of experience, on the other hand, ethical imperatives mould and scan the conditions for the subjective processes of the believer. Since the neo-Pentecostal churches cannot sustain their promises of a cure, and given the structural condition of human helplessness, a possible articulation is procured between the permanence of the demand for cures and the masochistic condiction. What is revealed in this relationship is the principle of unfulfilled promises and it is exactly because the promises remain unfulfilled that the subjective position of ever demanding a cure is sustained.
Este artículo busca analizar algunas relaciones establecidas entre las transformaciones socioculturales ocurridas en la contemporaneidad y la demanda de cura en las iglesias neopentecostales. La demanda de cura es presentada como un dispositivo o campo de fuerza proveedor de procesos o modos de subjetivación. Los modos de subjetivación en las iglesias neopentecostales evidencian la constitución del sujeto desde una relación de causalidad directa entre los campos de flexión o curvatura de la fe y de la ética. Si la demanda de cura es potenciada por la experiencia de la fe, por otro lado, los imperativos éticos moldean y limitan las condiciones para el proceso de subjetivación del fiel. No siendo posible la sustentación de las promesas de cura lanzadas por las iglesias neopentecostales dada la condición estructural del desamparo humano, se busca una articulación posible entre la permanencia de la demanda de cura y la condición masoquista. Lo qué se revela en esa relación es el principio de la promesa sin cumplimiento, o sea, exactamente porque no se cumple es que se sostiene una posición subjetiva de siempre demandar.
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Humans , Male , Female , Faith Healing/psychology , Masochism , Mysticism , Religion and Medicine , Religion and PsychologyABSTRACT
Este artigo busca analisar algumas relações estabelecidas entre as transformações socioculturais ocorridas na contemporaneidade e a demanda de cura nas igrejas neopentecostais. A demanda de cura é apresentada como um dispositivo ou campo de força agenciador de processos ou modos de subjetivação. Os modos de subjetivação nas igrejas neopentecostais evidenciam a constituição do sujeito a partir de uma relação de causalidade direta entre os campos de flexão ou curvatura da fé e da ética. Se a demanda de cura é potencializada pela experiência da fé, por outro lado, os imperativos éticos moldam e limitam as condições para o processo de subjetivação do fiel. Não sendo possível a sustentação das promessas de cura veiculadas pelas igrejas neopentecostais dada a condição estrutural do desamparo humano, busca-se uma articulação possível entre a permanência da demanda de cura e a condição masoquista. O que se desvela nessa relação é o princípio da promessa sem cumprimento, ou seja, exatamente porque não se cumpre é que se sustenta uma posição subjetiva de sempre demandar.(AU)
The purpose of this article is to analyze some relationships which have been established between contemporary socio-cultural transformations and the demand for cures in neo-Petencostal churches. The demand for cures appears to be a stratagem or a field force promoting processes or modes of subjectivity. The modes of subjectivity in the neo-Pentecostal churches give evidence to the constitution of the subject starting from a direct relationship of causality between the fields of the flexion or the curvature of faith and ethics. If, on the one hand, the demand for a cure is potential by the faith of experience, on the other hand, ethical imperatives mould and scan the conditions for the subjective processes of the believer. Since the neo-Pentecostal churches cannot sustain their promises of a cure, and given the structural condition of human helplessness, a possible articulation is procured between the permanence of the demand for cures and the masochistic condiction. What is revealed in this relationship is the principle of unfulfilled promises and it is exactly because the promises remain unfulfilled that the subjective position of ever demanding a cure is sustained.(AU)
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Humans , Male , Female , Religion and Medicine , Faith Healing/psychology , Mysticism , Religion and Psychology , MasochismABSTRACT
PURPOSE: Epilepsy was a well-recognized disease in pre-Columbian cultures. However, anthropological studies about epilepsy in native cultures living at the present time are scarce. The objective of this paper was to study native perception and myths about epilepsy, their magic-religious healing rites and ceremonies, and the natural treatments that archaic cultures used. METHODS: An anthropological fieldwork was performed in Central and South America with Tzeltal Maya (Chiapas, Mexico, 1995), Kamayurá (Matto Grosso, Brazil, 1999) and Uru-Chipaya people (Bolivian Andes, 2004). We collected information from shamans and medicine men about epilepsy beliefs and the use of traditional treatments. RESULTS: Epilepsy is called tub tub ikal by Tzeltal people. It is caused by an attack suffered by the animal spirit who accompanies the person, after a fight between the spirits who serve the forces of good and evil. People with chronic epilepsy are considered witches. Epilepsy is called teawarup by Kamayurá, and is caused by the revenge of the spirit (mama'e) of the armadillo killed by a huntsman. It is treated with two roots, tsimó and wewurú, kneaded and diluted in water. Epilepsy is called tukuri by the Chipaya people, and is originated by a witchcraft that enters into the nose and the head, as a wind. Tukuri is treated with a ritual animal sacrifice called willancha, and by taking several dried insect infusions and bird's blood. CONCLUSION: These American native cultures have developed a system of orally transmitted knowledge about epilepsy based on magic-religious traditions.
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Anthropology, Cultural/statistics & numerical data , Epilepsy/ethnology , Indians, Central American/statistics & numerical data , Indians, South American/statistics & numerical data , Medicine, Traditional , Attitude to Health/ethnology , Bolivia/ethnology , Brazil/ethnology , Chronic Disease/ethnology , Chronic Disease/psychology , Epilepsy/psychology , Faith Healing/psychology , Humans , Indians, Central American/psychology , Indians, South American/psychology , Magic/psychology , Mexico/epidemiology , Mexico/ethnology , Prevalence , Religion and Medicine , Shamanism , Terminology as Topic , Witchcraft/psychologyABSTRACT
CONTEXTO: o autor descreve os xamãs como curadores que deliberadamente modificam seu padrão fenomenológico de atenção, percepção, cognição e consciência para obter informações não disponíveis ordinariamente aos membros do grupo social que lhes concedeu status privilegiado. OBJETIVOS: descrever como estas alterações fenomenológicas foram alcançadas e utilizadas. MÉTODOS: foram utilizados estudos da literatura xamânica em arquivo e pesquisas de campo em comunidades onde xamãs estão atuando ativamente. RESULTADOS: a fonte das informações obtidas pelos xamãs é atribuída a forças e entidades desencarnadas, como espíritos, ancestrais, guias animais e campos energéticos. Essas fontes foram contatadas através de toques ritualizados de tambores, danças, sonhos lúcidos, uso de plantas psicotrópicas, atenção focalizada e outros recursos. Este estudo foi importante, pois mostrou que os xamãs utilizam as informações obtidas para atender às necessidades sociais, psicológicas e médicas de suas comunidades. CONCLUSÕES: o disseminado aparecimento dos xamãs, especialmente em tribos caçadoras e coletoras, indica que suas presenças possuem funções adaptativas em um grupo social. Além disso, estes dados podem trazer importantes contribuições para a neurociência cognitiva, psicologia social, psicoterapia e psicologia ecológica.
BACKGROUND: the author describes shamans as practitioners who deliberately shift their phenomenological pattern of attention, perception, cognition, and awareness in order to obtain information not ordinarily available to members of the social group that granted them privileged status. OBJECTIVES: to describe how these phenomenological shifts were accomplished and used. METHODS: archival studies of shamanic literature as well as field research in communities where shamans are actively functioning. RESULTS: the source of shaman-derived information is attributed to such discarnate entities and forces as spirits, ancestors, animal guides, and energetic fields. These agencies were contacted through ritualized drumming, dancing, lucid dreaming, the use of psychotropic plants, focused attention, and other technologies. This study was important because it determined that shamans utilize the obtained information to attend to their communitys social, psychological, and medical needs. CONCLUSIONS: the ubiquitous appearance of shamans, especially in hunting and gathering tribes, indicates that their presence in a social group served adaptive functions. Further, these data can make important contributions to cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, psychotherapy, and ecological psychology.
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Delivery of Health Care , Faith Healing/psychology , Shamanism , Cognition , Faith Healing/history , Psychology, SocialABSTRACT
This article is a study of the mystical and apocalyptic dimensions of Teresa Urrea. As explained in this article, Urrea's mystical experiences and visions are unique for their connection with a propheticapocalyptic and political worldview. This apocalyptic dimension is more than a communication of a hidden message or spiritual world; it also includes a reading of history that is catastrophic and discontinuous. The crisis and terror of history are given expression in Urrea's mystical and apocalyptic pronouncements. In particular, the chaotic and oppressive circumstances of Mexican society during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz was confronted and denounced in Urrea's mystical and apocalyptic ministry. This apocalyptic healer castigated those culpable or even complicit with the injustices affecting the indigenous communities of Mexico during the late nineteenth century. In the case of Urrea, the transformation and healing of Church and society was an important aspect of her spiritual, healing powers. Because Urrea possessed neither arms nor the weapon of the pen, her sole weapon became her mystical experiences and the insight and healing powers that flowed from them. People of Mexicoespecially indigenous groupsbegan to flock to her hoping that she would bring God's presence to the troubled and chaotic circumstances of their lives. Her compassion and tenderness for the afflicted as well as the apocalyptic expectations that she stirred up among the indigenous groups of Northern Mexico were enough to get this mystical-political Mexican mestiza exiled from her homeland.
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Faith Healing , Mysticism , Social Conditions , Social Values , Women's Health , Faith Healing/education , Faith Healing/history , Faith Healing/psychology , History, 20th Century , Mexico/ethnology , Mysticism/history , Mysticism/psychology , Politics , Social Conditions/economics , Social Conditions/history , Social Conditions/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Problems/economics , Social Problems/ethnology , Social Problems/history , Social Problems/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Problems/psychology , Social Values/ethnology , Women/education , Women/history , Women/psychology , Women's Health/economics , Women's Health/ethnology , Women's Health/history , Women's Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Women's Rights/economics , Women's Rights/education , Women's Rights/history , Women's Rights/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
O Brasil apresenta amplo campo de terapias complementares que concorrem no tratamento de doenças e doentes. A composição deste pluralismo terapêutico decorre da peculiar história social, econômica e cultural do país. Dentro dessas, temos a reza, que pode ser caracterizada como uma atividade principalmente terapêutica que se realiza mediante uma relação dual cliente-rezador. Nessa relação, a reza exerce um papel de intermediação com o sagrado, na qual se tenta obter a cura. Torna-se necessário, portanto, que se compreenda melhor o que vivenciam, pensam, dizem, elaboram e fazem os diversos sujeitos sociais envolvidos nas questões da Medicina popular. Temos como objetivos conhecer a história de vida das rezadeiras que fazem parte de uma comunidade periférica do município de João Pessoa-PB e identificar o simbolismo da reza no processo de cura. Optamos por trabalhar com História Oral de Vida, porquanto mediante a narrativa das histórias de vida das rezadeiras, podemos conhecer suas experiências e seus significados. Para aprofundamento e iluminação da análise dos dados foi utilizada a interpretação da narração do colaborador. Assim valorizou-se o significado da narrativa implícita, seguindo os tons vitais de cada entrevistada como guia para análise. Para a enfermagem ter noções dos mecanismos transferências envolvidas nas interações humanas e do modo de manejá-las, ajuda a conduzir tratamentos que ultrapassem o discurso clínico-laboratorial, abrindo as portas para mudarmos alguns aspectos do cuidar, transformando-o em um cuidar humanizado, personalizado e holístico.