Social Dimensions of Health: Ritual Practice, Moral Orders, and Worlds of Meaning in Brazilian Candomblé and Umbanda Temples
In Western medicine the interpretation prevails that mental illness is a psychological and/or biological disorder. Most important concepts in health psychology, such as sense of coherence, self-efficacy, hope, or dispositional optimism are all very cognition and individual centered. In this individu...
| Published in: | Anthropology of consciousness |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Anthropological Association
[2020]
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| In: |
Anthropology of consciousness
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brazil
/ Candomblé
/ Umbanda
/ Mental health
/ Healing
/ Ritual
/ Spirituelle Gemeinschaft
/ Social identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AZ New religious movements KBR Latin America ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Umbanda
B Candomblé B Health sciences B positive psychology B Therapy B Mental Illness B Brazil |
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| Summary: | In Western medicine the interpretation prevails that mental illness is a psychological and/or biological disorder. Most important concepts in health psychology, such as sense of coherence, self-efficacy, hope, or dispositional optimism are all very cognition and individual centered. In this individualized perspective, mental illness is constructed in such a way that it can be treated in a dyadic doctor-patient or therapist-patient relationship with the help of drugs or therapeutic techniques. In this article, I would like to develop a contrasting social construction of mental illness. In Umbanda and Candomblé temples in Brazil, what is interpreted in the Western model as illness is understood as a “spiritual problem.” Here, the individual is constructed in relationship to the community, and individual health and healing is footed in moral-spiritual orders. In presenting the details of my investigation, I will apply Grawe’s common factors as a foil for developing the link between mental illness and its social context. |
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| ISSN: | 1556-3537 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Anthropology of consciousness
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12123 |