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

• Autore: Klassen Pamela E (Pamela Edith), <1967->
• 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; Faith Healing; Spiritual Therapies; Protestantism; Philosophy & Religion
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century anthropology; 20th century christianity; 20th century protestants; anthropology and christianity; canada and religion; christian history; christian missionary; christian salvation theory; christian students; christianity and protestants; ethnography and religion; liberal christianity; liberal protestantism; liberal protestants; medical missionaries; medicine and christianity; medicine and religion; religious history; religious studies students; science and religion; secularism and religion
• 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
• ISBN: 1-283-27855-3; 9786613278555; 0-520-95044-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827355403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Anthropology of Christianity