REL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Professional, Paraprofessional, Prentice Hall

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Rituals in Cultures
Rituals are performed in religion in all cultures around the world. In religion,
communities come together and practice these beliefs and exercises to gain a sense of belonging
and worship together. It is important to understand why people are different and have different
perspectives on life. In healthcare, rituals can be included to improve one’s health and heal the
client. It is important to respect the client and their wishes when it comes to taking care of the
patient because it has an impact on their healing. In healing, the client’s beliefs, values, and
feelings should be considered when enhancing their health. Rituals can be essential today and
can be used as an alternative to treat people if they feel they do not want to participate in taking
prescriptions or going through therapy. The rituals performed in many cultures such as
transference, pilgrimage, ceremonies and the use of psychotherapy and modern medicine inspire
trust which leads to healing.
Transference is a ritual that is performed in some cultures and is used to help remove
sickness from the patient into another object. From the video, In the Secrets of Voodoo, voodoo
dolls were for seen as evil and that it “symbolizes power and it is sinister” (In Search of, 1995).
Voodoo dolls were considered powerful because the person was able to focus their healing and
send healing to different parts of their body from the doll. In Yoruba and Nigeria, transference
is performed when the healer takes the patient who is sick to a river in a deserted place and
changes into a white dress. The patient’s head is shaved, and the healer would use a dove as a
sponge and rubs it on the patient body and drowns the illness. The illness is transferred from the
patient into the dove. Another group people who practice transference rituals are the Kung
people; these people would “enter a trance state called Kia, where they can “see the illness inside
people and can extract it” (Kinsley 41). After extracting the sickness, healing power is
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transferred from the healer to the patient through the sense of touch. Through a transference, the
patient must participate and be in a sacred environment to be able to trust that they would be
healed through the ritual.
In some religions, going on a pilgrimage is practiced where the patient is taken to a
sacred place to be healed from an illness that is beyond the healer’s control. In the Secrets of
Voodoo film, a woman named Rosanne O'Conner came to mambo Angelia for healing because
she was not able to bear a child. She was given a holy bath to be purified in the waterfall blessed
by the gods. She was dressed in white clothing surrounded by chanting people in the community.
This brought healing and hope that the deity would bring her a miracle. In another religion, the
healers, Ojas, and shokas will take a trip to the Pisach Mochan, if the healer was not successful
to expel the demon from the patient. The demons were “arrested by local healers and brought to
the court. At the court, the demons are either jailed or settled” and the demon is forced to leave
the patient’s body (Kinsley, 63). Another group of people that practices this ritual is the
Zinancantecos, where they practiced ceremonies by taking the patient to a sacred place the
Hteklum. The family and the patient participate and search for a cure for the patient. In a
pilgrimage, traveling to another place makes the patient believe that would be healed there than
the place, there was before.
Ceremonies are performed in all religions, chanting, praying, singing, dancing, and
sacrifices are an important part of these rituals. In Eduardo the Healer video, he helped clients in
the community and cured of their sickness. A ceremony that Eduardo does is prepares himself
and the patients who are sick visit him at an altar and the patient participated in the ritual for the
healing to be successful. The patients trusted that Eduardo would heal them from this illness and
believed that they would be healed. He sanctifies the mason jars with water for the healing
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Rituals are performed in religion in all cultures around the world. In religion, communities come together and practice these beliefs and exercises to gain a sense of belonging and worship together. It is important to understand why people are different and have different perspectives on life. In healthcare, rituals can be included to improve one"s health and heal the client. It is important to respect the client and their wishes when it comes to taking care of the patient because it has an impact on their healing. In healing, the client"s beliefs, values, and feelings should be considered when enhancing their health. Rituals can be essential today and can be used as an alternative to treat people if they feel they do not want to participate in taking prescriptions or going through therapy. The rituals performed in many cultures such as transference, pilgrimage, ceremonies and the use of psychotherapy and modern medicine inspire trust which leads to healing.

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