Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 luiz_henrique_rodrigues_paiva.pdf: 1221162 bytes, checksum: e36363791a7bbfe542743d6c51bbe020 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-25 / This work aims to present the phenomenon of possession and exorcism in the Judeo-Christian tradition throughout history; starting from the Jewish antiquity to the present day. Demonic possession, as well as the practice of exorcism, are studied themes from antiquity to the present day. It is intended to provide a summary, in historiographical key, these phenomena of Religious Realm, and a critical analysis supported in studies by scholars like Karl Kertelge, Antonio Lazarini Neto, José Irenaeus Rabuske and Luigi Schiavo and historians as Jaccques Le Goff and Jean Delumeau . For this to be done, the work was divided into three chapters: the first, we analyze the question of the historical overview of the phenomenon; in the second, portray the developments in the phenomenon suffered by the beliefs of the medieval and modern world, culminating in the theological analysis of the possession and exorcism phenomenon in the last chapter. / Este trabalho tem como finalidade apresentar o fenômeno da possessão e exorcismo na tradição judaico-cristã, ao longo da história; partindo da antiguidade judaica até os dias atuais. A possessão demoníaca, bem como a prática do exorcismo, são temas estudados desde a antiguidade até os dias atuais. Pretende-se apresentar uma síntese, em chave historiográfica, desses fenômenos do Campo Religioso, além de uma análise crítica apoiada nos estudos de biblistas como Karl Kertelge, Antônio Lazarini Neto, Irineu José Rabuske e Luigi Schiavo e historiadores como Jaccques Le Goff e Jean Delumeau. Para que isso seja feito, o trabalho foi dividido em três capítulos: no primeiro, analisaremos a questão do panorama histórico do fenômeno; no segundo, retrataremos as evoluções sofridas no fenômeno mediante as crenças do mundo medieval e moderno, culminando na análise teológica do fenômeno de possessão e do exorcismo no último capítulo.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study deals with the social interpretation of childhood diarrhea among the Xhosa speaking people of the Western Cape in South Africa. It highlights how in the Western Cape political consciousness and moralist discourses strongly influence relationships between different health care systems and the production of continuing conflicts around problems of health care delivery. It is argued that if meaningful relationships could be found between socially based health-seeking strategies and biomedical classifications of enteric and other diseases of women and children, they could facilitate the provision of more equitable, effective and widely acceptable health care. Furthermore, it compares the etiological explanations of childhood illness signs and symptoms of mothers and health practitioners of two kinds, i.e., professional nurses trained in biomedicine and indigenous African health practitioners (IHPs). The comparison focuses particularly on the interpretation of stool quality and associated symptoms. For stool quality the study refers to the color and texture of children's feces that mothers and health practitioners identify and associate with distinctive conditions of affliction. The study found these descriptive categories do not exhaust the variety of interpretations known to Nguni people in the area. There is variation, even ambiguity, in the interpretation of commonly understood illness categories and with respect to diarrheal illnesses, knowledge remains contested between mothers and professional nurses. Moreover, the availability of a wide range of therapeutic options m Khayelitsha diversifies the mother's causal explanations. It was found this diversity in causality and management of illnesses is manifested in the quality of children's stools, "green" feces in particular. Here too, different hues are not separable from the media in which they appear. Their interpretations draw on senses of value, ideas, social histories, different forms of power, systematic knowledge, and a great variety of other forms of significance that are embedded in the concrete domains of everyday life. In addition to the notion of isuntu,(that is humaneness) the study more importantly reveals that among Nguni of the Western Cape a tripartite relationship of umoya,(vital force) inyongo,(gallbladder) and ithongo (ancetral dream) is the dynamic philosophical component that describes Nguni experiences of health and illness. vi https://etd.

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This dissertation lays out some of the current attitudes and understandings in the Reformed Church in America in regards to the ministry of deliverance. The arguments laid out are supported by what is currently happening in deliverance ministry across the United States and in-depth interviews with Reformed Church in America pastors. Differences in how we understand the terminology involved in this ministry were also briefly looked at. Deliverance ministry within the Reformed church is hampered by issues of fear and uncertainty, lack of knowledge or understanding and issues of world view. Many RCA pastors are open to this ministry although very few have actually engaged in deliverance with a person. RCA pastors tend to lean more toward psychological answers than they do spiritual ones. / Thesis (M. Th. (Practical Theology))

This essay uses interviews to gather information regarding the experience and belief which exists in regards to possession within the Anglican faith. It also uses Jungian psychology to analyse these experiences and beliefs; this is interesting because even in the modern day of science, possession continues to be a phenomenon. It still occurs closer to home than we may think; a modern western country such as England, where Anglicanism is the state religion, have special ministries assigned to deal with this in every diocese. The information was gathered through interviews and literature, to give both a qualitative and a quantitative perspective. This essay presents a possible psychological explanation for the cases of possession as experienced within the Anglican faith, which provides an alternative to the distress these individuals are experiencing rather than assuming it necessarily is of a spiritual nature. It does not, however, seek to prove or disprove the possibility of a spiritual cause behind this phenomenon.

This dissertation lays out some of the current attitudes and understandings in the Reformed Church in America in regards to the ministry of deliverance. The arguments laid out are supported by what is currently happening in deliverance ministry across the United States and in-depth interviews with Reformed Church in America pastors. Differences in how we understand the terminology involved in this ministry were also briefly looked at. Deliverance ministry within the Reformed church is hampered by issues of fear and uncertainty, lack of knowledge or understanding and issues of world view. Many RCA pastors are open to this ministry although very few have actually engaged in deliverance with a person. RCA pastors tend to lean more toward psychological answers than they do spiritual ones. / Thesis (M. Th. (Practical Theology))

Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2004 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The worldwide phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism is a well-acknowledged fact, which no one can deny. Research shows that much of the growth is in the neo- Pentecostal or charismatic wing of the movement. Ghana is not left out of this. One phenomenon that has become so pronounced in the charismatic movement in Ghana is the practice of the so-called "deliverance". This phenomenon purports to let Christians attain to the abundance of life that Christ offers as part of God's salvation package to humankind. Most of the deliverance ministries, to a large extent, attribute situations such as sicknesses, poverty, late marriage, denial of visa to travel abroad and even some natural disasters among others to supernatural causes. These supernatural causes, which are said to hinder Christians from achieving the abundance of life, are mainly identified as demonic contamination, demonic influence, demon-possession, witchcraft or ancestral curses. The prescribed antidote to these is to be taken through deliverance by a special person of God. Due mainly to a very bad economic situation which has made many Ghanaians live below the poverty line; it makes it very difficult for many people to afford the cost of western medical care. Many Ghanaians are also daily looking for avenues to go and better their lot in other countries. The traditional Ghanaian like many Africans has a worldview, which believes in a supernatural dimension to every physical occurrence including difficulties in the acquisition of visa to travel abroad. The emergence of the deliverance ministries has therefore provided a legitimate haven to which people who would otherwise have gone to the traditional shrines to seek solutions to their problems can now go. The challenge that this phenomenon poses to evangelical Christianity is highlighted in this research. A critical assessment of the phenomenon as it pertains in Ghanaian Christianity has been done from the perspective of a specific definition of evangelicalism. Much as the fact cannot be denied that some of the deliverance ministries are meeting real felt needs of people in biblically unquestionable ways, there are obviously, some who are for various reasons employing anti-Christian and superstitious principles. The purpose of this research therefore, is to inform evangelical Christians on what the whole phenomenon is about in the light of Scripture so that practices that are not in line with the whole truth of the word of God can be avoided. On the other hand, evangelical Christian ministers can find ways of inculcating some of the useful practices of the phenomenon into their ministry for the benefit of their congregations and all people who might need such assistance. This is very necessary because the people from these congregations are patronizing the services of the deliverance ministries anyway. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die wereldwye fenomeniese groei van die pinksterbeweging is 'n welbekende feit wat niemand kan ontken nie. Navorsing toon dat die meerderheid van die groei binne die "neopinkster" of charismatiese deel van die beweging plaasvind. In Ghana is dit geen uitsondering nie. Een verskynsel wat so prominent geword het in die charismatiese beweging in Ghana is die beoefening van die sogenaamde "bevryding". Hierdie verskynsel beweer dat die Christene lewe in oorvloed sal he wanneer hulle Christus aanbid, as deel van God se verlossingsplan vir die mens. Meeste van hierdie bevrydingsbewegings, in 'n groot mate, skryf situasies soos siekte, armoede, die weiering van 'n visum vir ander lande en selfs sommige natuurlike rampe, onder andere toe aan bonatuurlike oorsake. Hierdie bonatuurlike oorsake waarvan gepraat word wat die Christene daarvan weerhou om die lewe in oorvloed te geniet, word hoofsaaklik geidentifiseer as demoniese kontaminasie, demoniese invloed, demoniese heksery of bloedlynvloeke. Die voorgeskrewe teenmiddel hiervoor is om deur bevryding te gaan deur mid del van 'n spesiale persoon in God. Hoofsaaklik as gevolg van 'n haglike ekonomiese situasie, leef baie Ghanese onder die broodlyn en is dit werklik moeilik vir baie mense om Westerse medisyne te bekostig. Ghanese soek ook daagliks 'n ander heenkome en probeer hulle lot verander in ander lande. Die tradisionele Ghanees, soos meeste Afrika inwoners, het 'n werelduitkyk wat glo in die bonatuurlike dimensie vir elke fisiese verskynsel, insluitend die probleem om 'n visum te kry. Die verskyning van die bevrydingsbedienings, het gevolglik 'n legitieme toevlugsoord gebied aan mense wat andersins na tradisionele heiligdomme sou gaan, om antwoorde op hulle probleme en vrae te soek. Die uitdaging wat hierdie verskynsel aan die Evangeliese Christendom bied, is onderstreep in hierdie navorsing. 'n Kritiese evaluering van die fenomeen, soos dit voorkom in Ghanese Christendom, is vanuit die perspektief van 'n spesifieke definisie van evangelisasieleer gedoen. Net soos die feit dat sommige bevrydingsbedienings werklik die mens se egte behoeftes op 'n onbetwisbare, bybelse manier aanspreek, net so is dit duidelik dat sommige mense om verskeie redes anti-Christelike en bygelowige beginsels implementeer. Die doel van hierdie navorsing is dus om Evangeliese Christene in te lig waaroor hierdie verskynsel handel, in die lig van die Woord. Sodoende kan praktyke wat nie ooreenstemend met die waarheid van God se Woord is, me vermyword. Aan die anderkant, kan Evangeliese Christen predikers maniere vind om die nuttige praktyke van hierdie verskynsel in hul eie bedienings te integreer tot voordeel en opbou van die gemeente en aIle mense wat sulke bystand mag benodig. Dit is noodsaaklik omdat die mense van hierdie gemeentes in elk geval die bevrydingsbedienings ondersteun.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de saisir les modalités et les logiques d’agencements des pratiques religieuses de guérison en région betsileo, dans les Hautes Terres centrales de Madagascar. Dans ce contexte, les rituels de soin sont le fait des devins-guérisseurs et des possédés par des esprits d’ancêtres familiaux, royaux et/ou aux esprits de la nature, mais également des exorcistes laïcs du mouvement de Réveil protestant luthérien (fifohazana), apparu dans le village betsileo de Soatanàna en 1894. Cette recherche a principalement été menée dans la capitale régionale, Fianarantsoa, et ses environs. Il est alors question, par le biais des acteurs du champ religio-thérapeutique (les guérisseurs et leurs malades), de comprendre comment les soins se juxtaposent malgré la tenue de discours imperméables les uns aux les autres. Les itinéraires thérapeutiques mènent les malades dans les salles de soin du domicile des devins-guérisseurs, les salles d’accueil du mouvement de Réveil, les lieux de culte publics (dans la ville de Fianarantsoa et dans les forêts environnantes), les étals des herboristes des marchés urbains, ou encore les hôpitaux et dispensaires. Ainsi, la dimension centrale du territoire religieux apparaîtra comme centrale dans ces logiques de cumulations, en région betsileo, à Madagascar, mais aussi dans les Églises protestantes malgaches de l’étranger (FPMA). En ce sens, le rapport au religio-thérapeutique se construit dans un espace mondialisé et négocie avec les codes de la biomédecine. / The aim of this thesis is to understand the modalities and the logics of arrangements in religious healing practices in Betsileo region, in the central highlands of Madagascar. In this context, the ritual treatments are offered by soothsayers-healers and possessed by family ancestors, royal ancestors and/or spirits of the nature, but also the exorcists of the lutheran protestant movement of Revival (fifohazana), who appeared in the Betsileo village of Soatanàna, in 1894. This research was principally conducted in the regional capital, Fianarantsoa, and its surroundings. This study aims, by examining religio-therapeutic process, to investigate the juxtaposition of healing methods in spite of impervious discourses. Therapeutic itineraries lead patients to treatment rooms in soothsayers-healers’ homes, to reception rooms of the Revival movement, to public places of worship (in the city of Fianarantsoa and surrounding forest areas), to herbalist market stalls in urban areas, or tohospitals and dispensaries. Thus, the central dimension of religious territoriality appears as central to these cumulative logics in the Betsileo region, in Madagascar, but also in Malagasy Protestant Church abroad (FPMA). In this sense, the relation to religious-therapeutic is constructed in a globalized world and is negociated with the codes of biomedicine.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-20T08:46:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivana Soares Paim.pdf: 6891293 bytes, checksum: b7d32c745fe946f89bd0dddaf46b2dc9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-20T08:46:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivana Soares Paim.pdf: 6891293 bytes, checksum: b7d32c745fe946f89bd0dddaf46b2dc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research studies the image of the Devil, which is taken from the stages of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) to the YouTube, according to the context of the communications that take place in the socialnetworks. The corpus of this work is made by an assemblage of scenes of exorcisms spreaded on YouTube, from 2010 through 2014, years of continuous expansion of this Church. This study aims to investigate the elements that build the representation of the Devil in the rituals of exorcism at the UCKG. These elements come from the Christian imaginary as well as from that of the Afro-Brazilian religions; they also come from the relations between the television and the religious practices, and consequently, from the marketing strategies developed by this Church. This research works with the hypothesis that the image of the Devil at the UCKG is an instrument of advertisement, part of the revival of the buzz marketing at the video sharing media and its use by religious institutions, in case, the UCKG. As an instrument of advertisement for this Church, the image of the Devil is represented in a fearful way and takes some characteristics of the Afro-Brazilian divinities by a hybridization process between these two religious imaginaries, conditioned to the UCKG’s movement of updating itself in search for recognition in a society that belongs to the web era. To develop this study, this research will consider the ideas of Hans Belting and Lúcia Santaella about the fields in which images can be classified into, as well as Gilbert Durand’s theories about the imaginary, that enable us to understand the building of images or representations as a product resulted from the interaction between an individual and his culture. It will also consider the concept of provoqued event by Patrick Charaudeau, who thinks the mediatic image is a programmed and an expected construction, whose purpose is to “reveal a truth” by persuasion and emotional appeal with obvious advertising intentions. In addition, other references will be considered for this research, such as studies about religion and more specifically about some Afro-Brazilian religions, in order to make comparisons between representations of different divinities and that of the Christian Devil. It will also consider studies about the buzz marketing that consists of an advertising strategy that makes the clients advertise the product by motivating them to talk about it with friends and acquaintances. We believe that the importance of this work relies on its contribution for the studies around the religious marketing in the time of web communication, since religious institutions have taken profit from the convergent media like YouTube to update their strategies in search for visibility and more followers / No contexto das comunicações realizadas por redes sociais de compartilhamento de informação, esta pesquisa estuda a imagem do Diabo levada dos palcos da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD) para o YouTube. Mais especificamente, examina a produção dessa imagem diabólica nos discursos verbais, imagéticos e corporais de sujeitos presumidamente possuídos em rituais de exorcismo apresentados naquele site. O corpus do trabalho constitui-se de uma amostra de registros desses exorcismos divulgados no YouTube, postados no período de 2010 a 2014, anos de contínua expansão dessa Igreja. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar os elementos constitutivos da representação do Diabo nos rituais de exorcismo da IURD que partem do imaginário cristão e do imaginário das religiões afro-brasileiras, das relações entre as mídias televisivas e as práticas religiosas, e consequentemente, das estratégias de propaganda desenvolvidas por essa igreja. A pesquisa trabalha com a hipótese de que a imagem do Diabo na IURD é um instrumento de propaganda, parte da retomada do buzz marketing pelas mídias de compartilhamento de vídeo e de seu uso por instituições religiosas, no caso, a IURD. Como instrumento de propaganda dessa igreja, a imagem do Diabo é amedrontadora e se recobre de algumas características das divindades afro-brasileiras por um processo de hibridação entre esses imaginários religiosos, condicionados ao movimento de atualização da Universal e a sua busca por reconhecimento em uma sociedade inserida na era da web. Em plano teórico, mobilizar-se-ão os estudos de Hans Belting e Lúcia Santaella sobre os campos divisórios da imagem, assim como as teses sobre o imaginário de Gilbert Durand, que levam em consideração a interação do indivíduo com sua cultura, e o conceito de acontecimento provocado de Patrick Charaudeau, que considera a imagem midiática como uma construção esperada e programada, cuja finalidade é “revelar uma verdade” por meio da persuasão e do apelo emotivo, com fins claramente propagandísticos. Subsidiariamente, outros referenciais teóricos serão estudos abalizados sobre as religiões, inclusive as afro-brasileiras, que permitam estabelecer comparações entre representações de diferentes divindades àquelas do Diabo cristão, como também, trabalhos em torno do buzz marketing, uma técnica de propaganda que faz dos clientes os disseminadores de um produto ao estimulá-los a compartilhar informações sobre ele; o chamado boca-a-boca. Acreditamos que a relevância do trabalho está em contribuir com as reflexões voltadas ao marketing religioso na era da internet, do qual as igrejas vêm lançando mão cada vez mais para atualizar suas estratégias de busca por visibilidade e angariar mais fiéis