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John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing Rocha, Cristina (Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University)
John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing
Rocha, Cristina (Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University)
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.
288 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 26, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190466701 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 239 × 160 × 20 mm · 593 g |
| Language | English |