Latina/o healing practices : mestizo and indigenous perspectives / edited by Brian W. McNeill and Joseph M. Cervantes.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	McNeill, Brian, 1955- Cervantes, Joseph Michael
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:	Traditional medicine > United States. Hispanic Americans > Religion. Hispanic Americans > Medicine. Traditional medicine > Latin America. Latin Americans > Medicine. Latin Americans > Religion. Spiritual Therapies. Hispanic or Latino. Medicine, Traditional. Religion. Spirituality.
Physical Description:	xxxiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

What is indigenous about being indigenous? the mestiza/o experience / Joseph M. Cervantes
Latina/o folk saints and Marian devotions: popular religiosity and healing / Fernando A. Ortiz and Kenneth G. Davis
Santería and the healing process in Cuba and the United States / Brian W. McNeill ... [et al.]
The use of psychotropic herbal and natural medicines in Latina/o and Mestiza/o populations / German Ascani and Michael W. Smith
Brazil's ultimate healing resource: the power of spirit / Sandra Nuñez
La limpia de San Lazaro as individual and collective cleansing rite / Karen V. Holliday
Resé un Ave María y ensendí una velita: the use of spirituality and religion as a means of coping with educational experiences for Latina/o college students / Jeanett Castellanos and Alberta M. Gloria
Los espiritus siguen hablando: Chicana spiritualities / Lara Medina
Religious healing and biomedicine in comparative context / Karen V. Holliday
Curanderismo: religious and spiritual worldviews and indigenous healing traditions / Fernando A.Ortiz, Kenneth G. Davis, and Brian W. McNeill
Epilogue: summary and future research and practice agendas / Joseph M. Cervantes and Brian W. Mcneill.