The importance of religious cults in providing healing services for Brazil's urban poor is now widely acknowledged. This study focuses on a poor neighbourhood in Salvador and the history of the illness of a young woman who resorted to several religious therapies beginning at the time of onset of her disease. The article seeks to contribute to an understanding of the ways in which the world views and healing projects of various religions are actually incorporated into the experience of ill individuals and their family members.
Religion; Cure; Therapies; Culture and Illness; Urban Brazil
