Religion and Healing in America

Religion and Healing in America
Author: Linda L. Barnes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195167961

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Americans have long been aware of the phenomenon loosely known as faith healing. During the 1990s the American cultural landscape changed and religious healing became a commonplace feature in our society. This is a look at this new reality.


Religion and Healing in America
Language: en
Pages: 553
Authors: Linda L. Barnes
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Americans have long been aware of the phenomenon loosely known as faith healing. Such practices most often received attention when they came into conflict with
Christian Science on Trial
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Rennie B. Schoepflin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Tracing the movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Schoepflin illuminates its struggle for existence against the efforts of organize
Faith in the Great Physician
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Heather D. Curtis
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-30 - Publisher: JHU Press

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This history of evangelical faith healing in nineteenth-century America examines the nation’s shifting attitudes about sickness, suffering, and health. Faith
Religion and Healing in Native America
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-30 - Publisher: Praeger

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What it means to be healthy or to heal is not universal from culture to culture, from religion to religion. Indeed, in many cultures religion and healing are in
Teaching Religion and Healing
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Linda L. Barnes
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The study of medicine and healing traditions is well developed in the discipline of anthropology. Most religious studies scholars, however, continue to assume t