Spirit Cure A History of Pentecostal Healing

Name: Spirit Cure A History of Pentecostal Healing
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ISBN: 9780199765676

ISBN-10: 0199765677

ISBN-13: 9780199765676

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joseph W. Williams

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Joseph W. Williams examines the changing healing practices of pentecostals in the United States over the past 100 years, from the early believers, who rejected mainstream medicine and overtly spiritualized disease, to the later generations of pentecostals and their charismatic successors, who dramatically altered the healing paradigms they inherited.Williams shows that over the course of the twentieth century, pentecostal denunciations of the medical profession often gave way to ''natural'' healing methods associated with scientific medicine, natural substances, and even psychology. By 2000, figures such as the pentecostal preacher T. D. Jakes appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, other healers…

Book details

List price: $98.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/25/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.45" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Pentecostal Healing in the Early Twentieth Century



Midcentury Transitions



Making Medicine Spiritual



Minding the Spirit



Perfect Bodies, Plentiful Profits


Conclusion: Pentecostal Healing in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries


Epilogue: Healing the Wounds of the Modern World


Notes


Index