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Faith in the great physician : suffering and divine healing in American culture, 1860-1900
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- Creator
- Heather D. Curtis
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
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- xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801886867, 9781421402017, 0801886864, 9781421429281, 1421402017
- OCLC
- ocn794701426, ocm85899018
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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
Subjects
- Spiritual healing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Faith Healing -- history -- United States.
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- Sick Role -- United States.
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- History, 19th Century -- United States.
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