HEALTH AND THE SACRED: REPRESENTATIONS OF ILLNESS AND TREATMENT PRACTICES AMONG THE SUPREME PRIESTS OF CANDOMBLÉ JÊGE-NAGÔ IN BRAZIL
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https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.39456Keywords:
Candomblé, Health, Illness, Priest.Abstract
The aim of this article is to characterize lhe supreme priests of Candomblé Jêje-Nagô in Brazil and their main treatment practices to promete health assistance and to preveni and copo with illness. In Brazil, these priests are responsible for treatments of an enormous quantity of persons seeking for help and/or cure for their diseases or suffering. Candomblé’s supreme priests offer, by ways of a transcendental orientation, important elements that help organizing the chaotic experience of people who suffer fromvarious diseases and others (families, friends) that are directly involved with them.
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