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Spirits of Protestantism : Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity / Pamela E. Klassen.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klassen, Pamela E. (Pamela Edith), 1967- Author.
- Series:
- The Anthropology of Christianity
- The Anthropology of Christianity ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Healing--Religious aspects--Protestant churches.
- Liberalism (Religion)--North America--History.
- Protestant churches--North America--History.
- Protestantism--North America--History.
- Healing--Religious aspects--Protestant churches--North America.
- Healing.
- Protestantism--History--North America.
- Protestantism.
- Protestant churches--History--North America.
- Protestant churches.
- Liberalism (Religion)--History.
- Liberalism (Religion).
- Complementary Therapies.
- Christianity.
- Therapeutics.
- Religion.
- Humanities.
- Faith Healing.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Medical Subjects:
- Complementary Therapies.
- Christianity.
- Therapeutics.
- Religion.
- Humanities.
- Faith Healing.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Protestantism.
- Local Subjects:
- Healing--Religious aspects--Protestant churches.
- Liberalism (Religion)--North America--History.
- Protestant churches--North America--History.
- Protestantism--North America--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 times over: in the struggle against the cultural and medical pathologizing of homosexuality; in the critique of Christian missionary triumphalism; and in the diffusion of an ever-more ubiquitous anthropology of "body, mind, and spirit." At a time when the political and anthropological significance of Christianity is being hotly debated, Spirits of Protestantism forcefully argues for a reconsideration of the historical legacies and cultural effects of liberal Protestantism, even for the anthropology of religion itself.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface: Pathologies of Modernity
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613278555
- 9781283278553
- 1283278553
- 9780520950443
- 0520950445
- OCLC:
- 739049459
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