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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40943459 Title: Self-help and popular religion in modern American culture : an interpretive guide Author: Roy M Anker Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0313222495 9780313222498 OCLC:40943459

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Self-help and popular religion in modern American culture : an interpretive guide

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Self-help and popular religion in modern American culture : an interpretive guide

Author:	Roy M Anker
Publisher:	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series:	American popular culture.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Roy M Anker Find more information about:
ISBN:	0313222495 9780313222498
OCLC Number:	40943459
Description:	viii, 191 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	1. Introduction -- 2. Romanticism, the Gilded Age, and the History of Christian Science. Academic historians and Christian Science -- Cultural change in late-nineteenth-century America -- Intellectual challenges to religious orthodoxy -- Faith, medicine, anomie, and maladies -- The early life and troubled times of Mary Baker Eddy -- Mary Baker Patterson's search for healing -- Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, mind-cure, and Christian Science -- Beginning a church -- Fighting a mental enemy -- Dissent within -- Toward the Mother Church -- Last years : retirement and consolidation -- After Eddy : the Church of Christ, Scientist -- The theology of Mary Baker Eddy -- The popular appeal of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science -- 3. The power of positive thought : Norman Vincent Peale. The life and career of Norman Vincent Peale -- The power of positive thinking -- Aftermath : controversy and popularity -- Contemporary critical reaction to the message of Norman Vincent Peale -- Criticism goes mainstream -- A voice in defense -- The continuing debate -- Another apology, and attack -- After the controversy : post-1950s analyses -- General histories of American religion on Peale -- 4. An heir to Peale : Robert Schuller and a career of possibility thinking. Schuller on television and in books -- Years of success -- The controversy over Schuller : conservatives and liberals dispute -- Academic examinations of Robert Schuller.
Series Title:	American popular culture.
Responsibility:	Roy M. Anker.

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