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.
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