Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka

We describe three patients from different religious backgrounds in Sri Lanka whose possession states were strongly influenced by their religious beliefs. Patient A was a Buddhist who claimed to have special powers given by a local deity named Paththini. Patient B was a Catholic who experienced spiri...

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Autores principales: Hanwella, Raveen, de Silva, Varuni, Yoosuf, Alam, Karunaratne, Sanjeewani, de Silva, Pushpa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22970398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/232740
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author Hanwella, Raveen
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description We describe three patients from different religious backgrounds in Sri Lanka whose possession states were strongly influenced by their religious beliefs. Patient A was a Buddhist who claimed to have special powers given by a local deity named Paththini. Patient B was a Catholic who experienced spirits around her whom she believed were sent by Satan. Patient C was a Muslim and believed she was possessed by spirits. The religious beliefs also influenced the help-seeking behaviour and the rituals or treatments to which they responded.
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spelling pubmed-34372722012-09-11 Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka Hanwella, Raveen de Silva, Varuni Yoosuf, Alam Karunaratne, Sanjeewani de Silva, Pushpa Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report We describe three patients from different religious backgrounds in Sri Lanka whose possession states were strongly influenced by their religious beliefs. Patient A was a Buddhist who claimed to have special powers given by a local deity named Paththini. Patient B was a Catholic who experienced spirits around her whom she believed were sent by Satan. Patient C was a Muslim and believed she was possessed by spirits. The religious beliefs also influenced the help-seeking behaviour and the rituals or treatments to which they responded. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3437272/ /pubmed/22970398 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/232740 Text en Copyright © 2012 Raveen Hanwella et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka
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title_fullStr Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka
title_full_unstemmed Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka
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