1993
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x1993000300019
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Religião e cura: algumas reflexões sobre a experiência religiosa das classes populares urbanas

Abstract: A importância dos cultos religiosos enquanto agências terapêuticas entre as classes populares urbanas tem sido amplamente reconhecida. A partir de análise da história de doença de uma jovem de bairro pobre de Salvador - que recorreu a uma série de agências religiosas desde a eclosão do seu problema - o presente trabalho busca contribuir para o entendimento das formas pelas quais as visões de mundo e projetos de cura de diferentes cultos são de fato incorporados à experiência cotidiana de doentes e seus familia… Show more

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“…This difference may be underestimated in the present study, since the healthy individuals were practicing members of their religion and therefore would tend to have higher religiousness scores than the population at large. Therefore, the difference can be accounted for: 1) the increased need of support presented by the patients in order to face the demands associated with falling ill 3,27-30 , 2) the possibility that sick individuals seek a meaning or explanation for the fact that they had fallen ill 31 , or, 3) an attempt at healing through faith 32 . Since all patients are in treatment in a hospital, all possible explanations are not mutually excluding.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This difference may be underestimated in the present study, since the healthy individuals were practicing members of their religion and therefore would tend to have higher religiousness scores than the population at large. Therefore, the difference can be accounted for: 1) the increased need of support presented by the patients in order to face the demands associated with falling ill 3,27-30 , 2) the possibility that sick individuals seek a meaning or explanation for the fact that they had fallen ill 31 , or, 3) an attempt at healing through faith 32 . Since all patients are in treatment in a hospital, all possible explanations are not mutually excluding.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Os estudos socioantropológicos sobre os elos entre religião, saúde, doença e cura mostram que a religiosidade é um recurso usado pelas pessoas para resolver ou aliviar os problemas de saúde, aflições e sofrimentos 1,2,3,4,5,6 . Concebe-se a religião como sistema simbólico portador de um conhecimento sobre o mundo, por meio do qual as pessoas atribuem sentido à realidade vivida 1 .…”
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“…As religiões possibilitam aos sofredores, e para aqueles que com eles convivem, reinterpretar a experiência do adoecimento e da cura, restabelecendo a ordem num universo aparentemente sem sentido, conturbado pelos sofrimentos, aflições e doenças 1,2 .…”
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