Candy Gunther Brown

Healing Gods

Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the surprising story of how complementary and alternative medicine, CAM, entered biomedical and evangelical Christian mainstreams despite its roots in non-Christian religions and the lack of scientific evidence of its efficacy and safety.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 172mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9780199985784
• ISBN-10: 0199985782
• Artikelnr.: 37253236

Autorenporträt

Candy Gunther Brown is an associate professor of religious studies at Indiana University. Her books are Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (2012); Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, as editor (Oxford University Press, 2011), and The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 ( 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

* Abbreviations
* Introduction: Why is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Supposed to Work?
* 1. Is CAM Religious?
* 2. Yoga: I Bow to the God within You
* 3. Is CAM Christian?
* 4. I Love My Chiropractor!
* 5. Does CAM Work, and is it Safe?
* 6. Acupuncture: Reclaiming Ancient Wisdom
* 7. How did CAM become Mainstream?
* 8. Energy Medicine: How Her Karma Ran over His Dogma
* Conclusion: Why does it Matter if CAM is Religious (and not
Christian)-even if it Works?
* Bibliography
* Index