Spiritual currency in northeast Brazil / / C. Lindsey King.
"This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Caninde in northeast Brazil. Their tradition involves pilgrimage and the practice of crafting unique offerings in payment for healing and reversal of bad fortune--a practice predating Christiani...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Albuquerque : : University of New Mexico Press,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (169 pages) :; illustrations |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Spiritual currency in northeast Brazil / |c C. Lindsey King. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Albuquerque : |b University of New Mexico Press, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (169 pages) : |b illustrations | ||
| 336 | |a text |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 338 | |a online resource |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Caninde in northeast Brazil. Their tradition involves pilgrimage and the practice of crafting unique offerings in payment for healing and reversal of bad fortune--a practice predating Christianity and brought to the new world by explorers and early European colonial powers. King argues that these marginalized Brazilians, living in a region where poverty is endemic, use St. Francis of Wounds to replace the medical and social services that the government has failed to provide. She further illustrates the evolution of the regional practice with photographs documenting all stages of this tradition, especially the folk art ex-votos used to pay for the saint's intervention"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 600 | 0 | 0 | |a Francis, |c of Assisi, Saint, |d 1182-1226 |x Cult |z Brazil |z Caninde (Ceara) |
| 651 | 0 | |a Caninde (Ceara, Brazil) |x Religious life and customs. | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a King, Lindsey. |t Spiritual currency in northeast Brazil. |d Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014 |z 9780826355317 |w (DLC)10989916 |
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