Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiv, 269 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Lived religions

Subject

1. History, 19th Century > United States
2. Psychology and religion > United States
3. Spiritual healing > History > United States
4. Spiritual healing > United States > History > 19th century

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 08-230

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index.

Author

1. Curtis, Heather D.

Title

1. Faith in the great physician : suffering and divine healing in American culture, 1860-1900 / Heather D. Curtis.

Imprint

1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Series

1. Lived religions

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index.

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1. Table of contents only
2. Publisher description
3. Contributor biographical information

LCCN

1. 2007010558

ISBN

1. 9780801886867 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 0801886864 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 08-230