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Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing : The Panacea Society in the Twentieth Century.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lockhart, Alastair.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Panacea Society.
- Christian communities--England--Bedford--History--20th century.
- Christian communities.
- Women and religion--England--Bedford--History--20th century.
- Women and religion.
- Bedford (England)--Church history--20th century.
- Bedford (England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Panacea Society and the Study of Religion
- The Archive
- The Structure of the Book
- Chapter One. The Panacea Society's Healing
- Seeking a Spiritual Cure
- Personal Stories
- Wider Benefits
- The Panacea Effect
- The Panacea Society
- Chapter Two. Sources of the Healing
- The Panacea Society and the Prophets
- The English Prophets
- Octavia
- The Theology of the Healing
- New Salvation
- The Female and the Fall
- Chapter Three. Understanding Religion
- Theories of Religious Change
- Patterns of Panacea Healing Affiliation
- Chapter Four. The Healing and Other Movements I: Great Britain
- New Movements and the Panacea Society
- New Movements and the Panacea Society's Healing Users
- Mainstream Religion
- Chapter Five. The Healing and Other Movements II: The United States, Jamaica, and Finland
- The United States
- Jamaica
- Finland
- The Panacea Society in the United States, Jamaica, and Finland
- Chapter Six. War and Anxiety
- Advertising and War
- War and the Healing
- Chapter Seven. Religious Language and Metaphysics
- Religious language
- Metaphysics
- Chapter Eight. Theories of Transcendence
- Contemporary Spirituality and the Healing
- Transcendence
- Postscript. The End of the Healing
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781438472874
- 1438472870
- OCLC:
- 1084268805
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