Spirits of Protestantism Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity

Name: Spirits of Protestantism Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
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ISBN: 9780520270992

ISBN-10: 0520270991

ISBN-13: 9780520270992

Edition: 2011

Authors: Pamela E. Klassen

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This exciting work offers an innovative analysis of the politics of body, mind, and spirit among North American liberal Protestants over the course of the twentieth century. Pamela Klassen shows how a global array of healing therapies, such as telepathy and yoga found their way into Protestant practice. Liberal Protestants of the early decades sought to convert "the heathen" by combining modern medicine with evangelism in Christian missions that were both scientific and imperialistic. By the century's end they viewed this "healing mission" as pathological both politically and therapeutically. Klassen shows how Protestant encounters with a variety of bodily therapies helped them to cultivate…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


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 the Queer Psyche in an Age of Anxiety



Ritual Proximity and the Healing of History


Conclusion: Critical Condition


Notes


Archives Consulted


Selected Bibliography


Index