Theoretical Appliqué and Comparative Contextualization in Cristina Rocha’s John of God / Bordado teórico e contextualização comparativa no livro John of God, de Cristina Rocha
Horizonte December 21, 2020 Steven Joseph Engler
This article looks at two sorts of conceptual work in Cristina Rocha’s John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing (2017): theoretical appliqué and comparative contextualization. The first involves using an ad hoc set of concepts to set out series of partial interpretations. Despite not offering one unified interpretation, this approach has the advantages of respecting the...