Spirits of Protestantism : Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity


Pamela E. Klassen
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : : University of California Press, , 2011.
Omfang
1 online resource (349 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Healing Christians; Chapter 1: Anthropologies of the Spiritual Body; Chapter 2: The Gospel of Health and the Scientific Spirit; Chapter 3: Protestant Experimentalists and the Energy of Love; Chapter 4: Evil Spirits and the Queer Psyche in an Age of Anxiety; Chapter 5: Ritual Proximity and the Healing of History; Conclusion: Critical Condition; Notes; Archives Consulted; Selected Bibliography; Index. - Spirits of Protestantism reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing on archival and ethnographic sources, Pamela E. Klassen shows how and why the very notion of healing within North America has been infused with a Protestant ""supernatural liberalism."" In the course of coming to their changing vision of healing, liberal Protestants became pioneers three
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