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Spirits of Protestantism : Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity / / Pamela E. Klassen



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Autore: Klassen Pamela E (Pamela Edith), <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Spirits of Protestantism : Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity / / Pamela E. Klassen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
Disciplina: 234.131
Soggetto topico: Healing - Religious aspects - Protestant churches
Healing -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches
Liberalism (Religion) - North America - History
Liberalism (Religion) -- North America -- History
Protestant churches - North America - History
Protestant churches -- North America -- History
Protestantism - North America - History
Protestantism -- North America -- History
Healing - Religious aspects - Protestant churches - North America
Protestantism - History - North America
Protestant churches - History - North America
Liberalism (Religion) - History
Complementary Therapies
Christianity
Therapeutics
Religion
Humanities
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Faith Healing
Spiritual Therapies
Protestantism
Philosophy & Religion
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Spirits of Protestantism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27855-3
9786613278555
0-520-95044-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456797903321
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Serie: The Anthropology of Christianity