John of God
The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 January 2017
- ISBN 9780190466718
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 231x152x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics.
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This book is the first ethnographic account of the global spiritual movement headed by John of God, a Brazilian faith healer. Renowned for performing surgeries using rudimentary tools such as kitchen knives and scissors, without anesthetics or asepsis, John of God is allegedly inhabited by "entities," or spirits, and goes into a trance-like state in order to heal his visitors and afterwards, when he regains consciousness, does not remember the operations. Visited by thousands of the desperately ill; the wealthy; celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Ram Daas, Wayne Dyer, and Shirley MacLaine; and an increasing array of media, John of God has become an international faith healing superstar in just over a decade. Books about him have been translated into several languages, from Russian to Ukrainian to Japanese; ABC, the Discovery Channel, and the BBC have made documentaries on his healing center; tour guides advertise package trips; and John of God himself travels to conduct healing events in the US, New Zealand, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, and many other countries.
More recently, a transnational spiritual community has developed around John of God, comprised of the ill, those who seek spiritual growth, healers, and tour guides, and according to followers, even spirits whose powers transcend national boundaries. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Brazil, the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, Cristina Rocha examines the social and cultural forces that have made it possible for a healer from Brazil to become a global "guru" in the 21st century. Rocha explores what attracts foreigners to John of God's cosmology and healing practices, how they understand their own experiences, and how these radical experiences have transformed their lives.
It is a joy to watch important intellectual agendas develop across a scholar's body of work. John of God continues Cristina Rocha's project of recalibrating our understanding of transnational religion by showing "that global flows do not emanate solely from the Global North". It should be required reading for scholars of new religious movements, especially those attentive to their transnational dimensions. The book's ideal setting would be graduate anthropology and religion classes...But excellent writing and clear argumentation ensure that undergraduates will be able to follow any assigned chapters. The book is a remarkable achievement.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch 1: Meeting John of God: an Uneasy Beginning
Ch 2: "How does He Get His Magic?"
Ch 3: Re-enchanting Healing
Ch 4: Abadiânia as a "Touristic Borderzone"
Ch 5: Spiritual Tourism, Cultural Translation, and Friction
Ch 6: Flows into the Global North: Building a Transnational Spiritual Community
Ch 7: Localizing Flows: Healing the Land of its Suffering
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
