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Spirits of Protestantism: medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity

By KLASSEN , Pamela Edith

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780520244283, 9780520950443, 0520950445, 9781283278553, 1283278553
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3934784 bytes)
Series
Anthropology of Christianity 13
Pages
(xxix, 316 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Introduction. Healing Christians -- Anthropologies of the spiritual body -- The gospel of health and the scientific spirit -- Protestant experimentalists and the energy of love -- Evil spirits and queer psyches in an age of anxiety -- Ritual proximity and the healing of history -- Conclusion. Critical condition.;This work offers an analysis of the politics of body, mind and spirit among North American liberal Protestants over the course of the 20th century. Introduction. Healing Christians -- Anthropologies of the spiritual body -- The gospel of health and the scientific spirit -- Protestant experimentalists and the energy of love -- Evil spirits and queer psyches in an age of anxiety -- Ritual proximity and the healing of history -- Conclusion. Critical condition.

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