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

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Main Author: Curtis, Heather D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.