Spirits of Protestantism [electronic resource] : medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity / Pamela E. Klassen.

This work offers an analysis of the politics of body, mind and spirit among North American liberal Protestants over the course of the 20th century.

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Main Author: Klassen, Pamela E. (Pamela Edith), 1967-
Other title:Medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series:Anthropology of Christianity ; 13.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Healing Christians
  • Anthropologies of the spiritual body
  • The gospel of health and the scientific spirit
  • Protestant experimentalists and the energy of love
  • Evil spirits and queer psyches in an age of anxiety
  • Ritual proximity and the healing of history
  • Conclusion. Critical condition.