Religious sincretism, mapuche worldview, and faith healing: the massacre healing: the of Lonco Juan (1979)

Authors

  • Rodrigo Cespedes Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/RLDR.14.155

Keywords:

Indigenous worldview, mapuche, religious syncretism, cultural defense, faith healing, exorcism, mistake of law, mass hysteria

Abstract

This case report examines a criminal judgment for multiple homicides inside an indigenous community caused by an aggressive faith healing, an exorcism.  The Court acquitted the defendants because they suffered a sort of mass hysteria.

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Published

2022-12-31

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2022): Protección o tutela jurisdiccional de la libertad religiosa en la legislación interna de los países de América Latina

Section

Estudios Generales

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Copyright (c) 2022 Rodrigo Cespedes

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