John of God —— The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing

----- 上帝的约翰：巴西信仰愈合的全球化

ISBN: 9780190466718 出版年：2017 页码：289 Rocha, Cristina Oxford University Press

This book investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork throughout Brazil, the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, Cristina Rocha examines the social and cultural forces that have made it possible for an illiterate, mostly unknown faith healer in Brazil to become a global "guru" of the 21st century.