Spirits of Protestantism
Subtitle: medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity
By: Pamela E. Klassen
Series: The anthropology of Christianity -- 13; Anthropology of Christianity -- 13.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780520244283; 9780520270992
Subjects: Protestantism; Protestant churches; Liberalism (Religion); Healing; History
Other titles: Medicine, healing, and liberal Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Healing Christians; title: Anthropologies of the spiritual body; title: The gospel of health and the scientific spirit; title: Protestant experimentalists and the energy of love; title: Evil spirits and queer psyches in an age of anxiety; title: Ritual proximity and the healing of history; title: Conclusion. Critical condition.