Health and the holy in African and Afro-American spirit possession.
Social science & medicine (1982) 1987 T J Csordas 46 citations
The difficulty of reconciling religious and medical dimensions of ethnopsychiatric phenomena is discussed with respect to spirit possession cults. The paper documents a trend toward medicalization of the phenomenon in the Anglo-American literature, and points out the lack of such a trend in the French literature. Extended discussion is presented of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé, a cult not well...