The Shamanic Complex in the Pentecostal Church

Horwatt, Karin

doi:10.1525/eth.1988.16.2.02a00020

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Trance and Shamanism: What's in a Name?

Bourguignon

1989

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

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This article considers the implications of the definitions and typologies of trance and shamanism for the development and testing of cross-cultural hypotheses through a review of definitions, typologies, and use of key terms and related concepts in anthropology. Authors vary widely in their definitions and applications of terms: some uses are based on reasoned criteria, others on traditional practice; some establish typologies, others prefer continua. Classifications range from narrow and highly specific to broad and inclusive coverage. Some restrict the usage to traditional societies, while others seek applications to Western phenomena, whether faith healers and mediums, or poets, such as Walt Whitman. The concept of control, with a variety of meanings assigned to it, emerges as a significant variable in the comparative study of "trance" and "shamanism" as these terms are used by different authors in widely different manners.

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Trance and Shamanism: What's in a Name?

Bourguignon

1989

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

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Pentecostal healing as an expression of godly love: an empirical study

Cartledge

2013

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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"All Things Are Possible": Towards a Sociological Explanation of Pentecostal Miracles and Healings

Stolz

2011

Sociology of Religion

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Pentecostal miracles and healings have often been described and interpreted, but rarely explained in their sociological workings. As former research implies, actual biomedical effects of Pentecostal healings are possible (the so-called placebo effect), but quite limited. In Pentecostal healing services, however, very impressive miracles and healings are routinely produced: paralytics arise from wheelchairs, cancerous ulcers disappear, legs grow, cavities are mysteriously filled, and the deaf suddenly hear. Drawing on a case study and qualitative interviews, this paper offers a sociological, mechanism-based, explanatory scheme for the observed phenomena. It is argued that a number of "social techniques" (e.g., suggestion, rhythm, music), context factors (e.g., audience size and beliefs), and causal mechanisms (e.g., probability, latency, selection, and editing effects) are combined in an ingenious way in order to produce miracles and healings.

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The Shamanic Complex in the Pentecostal Church

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Trance and Shamanism: What's in a Name?

Trance and Shamanism: What's in a Name?

Pentecostal healing as an expression of godly love: an empirical study

"All Things Are Possible": Towards a Sociological Explanation of Pentecostal Miracles and Healings

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