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Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank Oxford University Press for giving me permission to use material from my book John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing (OUP 2017).

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    Cristina Rocha

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    Henri Gooren

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Rocha, C. (2018). John of God. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_538-1

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