Claire Chauvet

Se soigner ou soigner les autres ? Dimensions thérapeutiques d’un culte de possession vietnamien

Moussons September 23, 2019 Claire Chauvet

Spirits mediums of the Four Palaces have been taking part for a long time, along with other religious specialists, in the Vietnamese therapeutic area. They have helped, and still do despite historical upheavals, taking care of different kind of illnesses through rituals and, more generally, through spirits’ interventions. If healing is only one side of the worship, beside religious, political...