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Spirits of Protestantism : medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity

Author: Pamela E Klassen
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series: Anthropology of Christianity, 13.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Pamela E Klassen
ISBN: 9780520244283 0520244281 9780520270992 0520270991
OCLC Number: 695560134
Description: xxix, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Anthropology of Christianity, 13.
Other Titles: Medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity
Responsibility: Pamela E. Klassen.
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"A courageous and balanced treatise... A nuanced call for the careful analysis of the seemingly familiar."--Somatosphere "A rich portrait of 20th century Protestant liberalism."--Religion

 
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