Modern Techniques of the Supernatural: A Syncretism between Miraculous Healing and the Mass Media

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-28

  Bartocci, Goffredo ^a   Littlewood, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

psychiatry; stigmata; thaumaturgy

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744474760     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700017     Document Type: Article

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