Faith in the Great Physician

Faith in the Great Physician

Author: Heather D. Curtis

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1421402017

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This history of evangelical faith healing in nineteenth-century America examines the nation’s shifting attitudes about sickness, suffering, and health. Faith in the Great Physician tells the story of how participants in the divine healing movement transformed the ways Americans coped with physical affliction and pursued bodily wellbeing. Heather D. Curtis offers critical reflection on the theological, cultural, and social forces that come into play when one questions the purpose of suffering and the possibility of healing. Belief in divine healing ran counter to a deep-seated Christian ethic that linked physical suffering with spiritual holiness. By engaging in devotional disciplines and participating in social reform efforts, proponents of faith cure embraced a model of spiritual experience that endorsed active service, rather than passive endurance, as the proper Christian response to illness and pain. Emphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture. Recipient of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for 2007


The Faith Healers

The Faith Healers

Author: James Randi

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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Exposes the pretension and fraud that surrounds the faith healer business, revealing how alleged faith healers prey on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of the people they preach to.


When Prayer Fails

When Prayer Fails

Author: Shawn Francis Peters

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 019530635X

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'When Prayer Fails' examines the web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of religion-based medical neglect. It explores efforts to balance judicial protections for the religious liberty of faith-healers against the rights of children.


Prayer, Faith & Healing

Prayer, Faith & Healing

Author: Kenneth Winston Caine

Publisher: Rodale Books

Published: 2000-05-19

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1609612639

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Tap the power of prayer and faith to heal whatever ails you. Prayer and faith can be potent cures for a whole host of emotional and physical problems. Hundreds of scientific studies prove it! But how do you access this hidden strength? Prayer, Faith, and Healing will show you how with: * Advice from more than 160 of America's top religious leaders, counselors, doctors, and scientists * More than 500 tips for handling anger, addiction, depression, divorce, grief, stress, infidelity, financial problems, and over 40 other conditions * Plus, nearly 30 ways to build a more meaningful prayer life The most complete, most compelling advice ever gathered on how to heal yourself with prayer.


Bad Faith

Bad Faith

Author: Paul Offit

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0465082963

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When Jesus said, “Suffer the children,” faith healing is not what he had in mind


John of God

John of God

Author: Cristina Rocha

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190466715

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This book investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork throughout Brazil, the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, Cristina Rocha examines the social and cultural forces that have made it possible for an illiterate, mostly unknown faith healer in Brazil to become a global "guru" of the 21st century.


Working Cures

Working Cures

Author: Sharla M. Fett

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780807853788

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Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.


Psychic Surgery and Faith Healing

Psychic Surgery and Faith Healing

Author: Jessica Bryan

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781578634415

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A journalistic quest that begins with the couldn't-be-more-personal experience of her own psychic surgery, Bryan takes the reader from The Faith in God Spiritual Church outside Reno, Nevada to the Pangasinan Province of the Philippines Island of Luzon, famous for its healers who perform surgery without cutting open the body - bare-handed surgery, where no anesthesia is used, and there is no pain, scars, or infection. Even as quantum physicists close in on a scientific description of how it works, Bryan asks: "Is psychic healing a miracle of God or a trickery of fake blood and cotton balls perpetrated by charlatans?" She goes on to explore how it might well be both. This is an open, honest, in-depth look at the multiple, often contradictory realities of faith healing and the ripples it casts into the realms of physics, metaphysics, spirituality, and higher consciousness. Into this heartfelt first person account of a life-changing journey from patient to student to sometimes teacher, Bryan weaves a parallel narrative full of historical detail and cultural perspective on telekinesis, the magnetic force of cells, trance mediums, miracles, the placebo effect, and the power of expectation, as well as minor and major deities on the order of John of God, Franz Mesmer, Emanuel Swedenborg, Albert Einstein, and Shirley MacLaine.