Faith in the Great Physician : Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860–1900 / Heather D. Curtis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (288 pages): illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421429281
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 234/.131097309034 22
LOC classification:
  • BT732.5 .C88 2007
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Contents:
A thorn in the flesh : pain, illness, and religion in mid-nineteenth-century America -- Resisting resignation : the rise of religious healing in the late-nineteenth century -- Acting faith : the devotional ethics and gendered dynamics of divine healing -- The use of means : divine healing as devotional practice -- Houses of healing : sacred space, social geography, and gender in divine healing -- The Lord for the body, the gospel for the nations : divine healing and social reform.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index.

A thorn in the flesh : pain, illness, and religion in mid-nineteenth-century America -- Resisting resignation : the rise of religious healing in the late-nineteenth century -- Acting faith : the devotional ethics and gendered dynamics of divine healing -- The use of means : divine healing as devotional practice -- Houses of healing : sacred space, social geography, and gender in divine healing -- The Lord for the body, the gospel for the nations : divine healing and social reform.

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