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Spirits and Scientists

- Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture
Af: David J. Hess Engelsk Paperback

Spirits and Scientists

- Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture
Af: David J. Hess Engelsk Paperback
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Brazilian Spiritism (espiritismo, kardecismo) is an important middle-class religious movement whose followers believe in communication with the dead via spirit mediums and in healing illnesses by means of spiritual therapies. Unlike Anglo-Saxon Spiritualists, Brazilian Spiritists count among their number a well-developed and institutionalized intellectual elite that has reinterpreted northern hemisphere parapsychology and developed its own alternative medicine and sociology of religion. As a result, the mediation between popular religion (especially Afro-Brazilian religious practices) and the orthodoxies of the universities, the state, and the medical profession. Situating Spiritist intellectual thought in what he calls a broader ideological arena, Hess examines Spiritism in the context of religion, science, political ideology, medicine, and even the social sciences. Hess challenges the legacy of French sociologist Roger Bastide, who saw in Spiritism an elitist, middle-class ideology. In the process, Spirits and Scientists provides a new approach to middle-class religious movements in Latin America.
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Brazilian Spiritism (espiritismo, kardecismo) is an important middle-class religious movement whose followers believe in communication with the dead via spirit mediums and in healing illnesses by means of spiritual therapies. Unlike Anglo-Saxon Spiritualists, Brazilian Spiritists count among their number a well-developed and institutionalized intellectual elite that has reinterpreted northern hemisphere parapsychology and developed its own alternative medicine and sociology of religion. As a result, the mediation between popular religion (especially Afro-Brazilian religious practices) and the orthodoxies of the universities, the state, and the medical profession. Situating Spiritist intellectual thought in what he calls a broader ideological arena, Hess examines Spiritism in the context of religion, science, political ideology, medicine, and even the social sciences. Hess challenges the legacy of French sociologist Roger Bastide, who saw in Spiritism an elitist, middle-class ideology. In the process, Spirits and Scientists provides a new approach to middle-class religious movements in Latin America.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780271033679
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0271033673
Udg. Dato: 15 apr 1991
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 151mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 apr 1991
Forfatter(e): David J. Hess
Forfatter(e) David J. Hess


Kategori Religion og videnskab


ISBN-13 9780271033679


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 151mm


Højde 228mm


Udg. Dato 15 apr 1991


Oplagsdato 15 apr 1991


Forlag Pennsylvania State University Press