Brett Hendrickson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479834785
- eISBN:
- 9781479843015
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479834785.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the ways that contemporary curanderos as well as neo-shamans have endeavored to continue to “import” knowledge from Mesoamerica and South America. It shows that contemporary ...
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This chapter examines the ways that contemporary curanderos as well as neo-shamans have endeavored to continue to “import” knowledge from Mesoamerica and South America. It shows that contemporary curanderos, in an act of cultural memory and reclamation, reconfigure their healing tradition as one that is largely indigenous rather than the result of colonial contact and oppression. It also considers new directions in curanderismo by focusing on the University of New Mexico's course on curanderismo and the growing role of neo-shamanism in contemporary Mexican American metaphysical healing. The chapter suggests that contemporary curanderismo combines an overt return to an imagined indigenous Mesoamerican and South American past with attempts to incorporate with other common alternative healing traditions such as ayurveda, Reiki, and massage therapies.Less
This chapter examines the ways that contemporary curanderos as well as neo-shamans have endeavored to continue to “import” knowledge from Mesoamerica and South America. It shows that contemporary curanderos, in an act of cultural memory and reclamation, reconfigure their healing tradition as one that is largely indigenous rather than the result of colonial contact and oppression. It also considers new directions in curanderismo by focusing on the University of New Mexico's course on curanderismo and the growing role of neo-shamanism in contemporary Mexican American metaphysical healing. The chapter suggests that contemporary curanderismo combines an overt return to an imagined indigenous Mesoamerican and South American past with attempts to incorporate with other common alternative healing traditions such as ayurveda, Reiki, and massage therapies.
Joseph W. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199765676
- eISBN:
- 9780199315871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199765676.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The epilogue situates the changes in pentecostal and charismatic healing in the United States in the broader context of global pentecostalism. While the twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century ...
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The epilogue situates the changes in pentecostal and charismatic healing in the United States in the broader context of global pentecostalism. While the twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century changes in adherents' healing practices in the United States mirrored the type of contextualization that occurred around the globe, they also introduced a significant deference to the authority of medical science and alternative medicine that was quite foreign both to early pentecostalism and to manifestations of the pentecostal-charismatic movement worldwide (and especially in the global South). In the end, the changing healing practices of believers and the turn to metaphysical healing paradigms involved much more than just healing the body; they also pointed to a very deliberate effort to heal the rifts between adherents' faith and the expectations of the surrounding culture, and to mitigate apparent conflicts between religion and science.Less
The epilogue situates the changes in pentecostal and charismatic healing in the United States in the broader context of global pentecostalism. While the twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century changes in adherents' healing practices in the United States mirrored the type of contextualization that occurred around the globe, they also introduced a significant deference to the authority of medical science and alternative medicine that was quite foreign both to early pentecostalism and to manifestations of the pentecostal-charismatic movement worldwide (and especially in the global South). In the end, the changing healing practices of believers and the turn to metaphysical healing paradigms involved much more than just healing the body; they also pointed to a very deliberate effort to heal the rifts between adherents' faith and the expectations of the surrounding culture, and to mitigate apparent conflicts between religion and science.
