@article{8bdb8654-17a1-4f73-b204-d927829e079f,
author = {Renata Siuda-Ambroziak},
title = {Benzedeiras: Lights and Shadows of the Religious Healing Practice in Brazilian Folk Catholicism},
journal = {Studia Religiologica},
volume = {2019},
number = {Volume 52, Issue 3},
year = {2019},
issn = {0137-2432},
pages = {191-204},keywords = {religious healing; popular Catholicism; benzedeiras; Brazil},
abstract = {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 important 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.},
doi = {10.4467/20844077SR.19.014.11373},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/benzedeiras-lights-and-shadows-of-the-religious-healing-practice-in-brazilian-folk-catholicism}
}