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Books
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Language:
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English
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Location:
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Date:
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2007
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Author/Creator:
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Curtis, Heather D.
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Title:
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Faith in the great physician : suffering and divine healing in American culture, 1860-1900 $c / Heather D. Curtis.
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Publisher:
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.
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Format:
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xiv, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Description:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography: p. 241-259.
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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Subject:
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Spiritual healing--United States--History--19th century.
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Date Cataloged:
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07/21/2009
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