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Faith in the great physician : suffering and divine healing in American culture, 1860-1900 / Heather D. Curtis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, Heather D.
- Series:
- Lived religions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual healing--United States--History--19th century.
- Spiritual healing.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- A thorn in the flesh : pain, illness, and religion in mid-nineteenth-century America
- Resisting resignation : the rise of religious healing in the late-nineteenth century
- Acting faith : the devotional ethics and gendered dynamics of divine healing
- The use of means : divine healing as devotional practice
- Houses of healing : sacred space, social geography, and gender in divine healing
- The Lord for the body, the gospel for the nations : divine healing and social reform.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801886867
- 0801886864
- OCLC:
- 85899018
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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