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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007048349 |
| ISBN | 9780415954204 (hardbound : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415954207 (hardbound : alk. paper) |
