Description du projet
Étude transnationale en transe spirituelle
Les objectifs du projet THETRANCE, financé par l’UE, comprennent l’examen de la mobilité transnationale des pratiques et des concepts liés à la guérison spirituelle et à la transe, la comparaison de l’application de ces pratiques dans les trajectoires thérapeutiques entre la spiritualité et la biomédecine chez les patients en Amérique et en Europe, et une étude du rôle de l’apprentissage spirituel dans la santé et le bien-être des patients. Le projet se concentre sur les cas de personnes qui apprennent la transe spirituelle à des fins thérapeutiques: santé physique et mentale et guérison de la toxicomanie. Il implique une approche qui combine l’anthropologie sociale et médicale et l’anthropologie de la religion, créant ainsi des parallèles avec la recherche en psychologie et en psychiatrie. La méthodologie de l’étude est basée sur une recherche ethnographique comparative multi-sites menée dans des temples du monde entier.
Objectif
This multi-sited comparative ethnographic research has three objectives: 1. to examine the transnational mobility of practices and concepts related to spiritual healing and trance; 2. to compare the use of these practices in the therapeutic trajectories between spirituality and biomedicine of patients in North and South America, and Europe; and 3. to investigate the role of religious/spiritual learning in patients' health and well-being. In order to achieve these objectives, THETRANCE asks the following questions: how do therapeutic practices involving spiritual trance move and settle transnationally? How do trance-based healing practices become part of the therapeutic trajectories of people moving between spirituality and biomedicine? How do participants learn and narrate about spiritual trance, with what kinds of consistencies and differences across cultures, and how are these relevant for therapeutic purposes? Through an approach that combines social and medical anthropology, and the anthropology of religion, drawing parallels with research in psychology and psychiatry, THETRANCE focuses upon a specific cases of people learning spiritual trance for therapeutic purposes, for physical and mental health and to recover from substance addictions. The methodology is grounded in a multi-sited comparative ethnographic research in temples of the Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) in Brazil, the United States, Portugal and Italy. THETRANCE is innovative in combining the analysis of therapeutic trajectories between spirituality and biomedicine with the focus upon the process of learning spiritual trance through a transnational perspective. In doing so, it unsettles pathological reductions of spiritual trance to understand how these experiences are rather used therapeutically in industrialized societies, contributing to the current debates on the discernment between spiritual and pathological experiences.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
00185 Roma
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