New contexts for Curanderismo: Recasting Mexican American folk healing within American metaphysical religion

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  • This article argues that Mexican American folk and religious healing has begun to develop a multiethnic clientele within the American metaphysical religious community. The penchant among metaphysical spiritual seekers, New Agers, and members of the alternative healing community to appropriate and refashion Native American and Asian religious rituals and traditions is similarly opening up lines of exchange with Mexican American folk healers. Several of these contemporary healers have amended their traditional practices and rhetorics in order to converge more easily with the predispositions of their new metaphysical patients and apprentices. Older, more ethnically bound forms of Mexican American healing including saint veneration, herbal remedies, and Catholic prayers have given way to new emphases on energy auras, ancient wisdom, and notions of therapeutic wholeness.
TitleNew contexts for Curanderismo: Recasting Mexican American folk healing within American metaphysical religion
CreatorHendrickson, Brett
PublisherJournal of the American Academy of Religion
Academic DepartmentReligious Studies
DivisionHumanities
OrganizationLafayette College
Date IssuedSeptember 2013
Date Available2013-09-27T19:00:10Z
TypeArticle
LanguageEnglish
Bibliographic CitationHendrickson, B. (2013 Sept.) "New contexts for Curanderismo: Recasting Mexican American folk healing within American metaphysical religion." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81 (3): 620-643.
Standard IdentifierDOI 10.1093/jaarel/lft013
Handle 10385/1312
Permalinkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10385/1312
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