20th century anthropology
20th century christianity
20th century protestants
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anthropology and christianity
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canada and religion
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christian history
christian missionary
christian salvation theory
christian students
christianity and protestants
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ethnography and religion
liberal christianity
liberal protestantism
liberal protestants
medical missionaries
medicine and christianity
medicine and religion
religious history
religious studies students
science and religion
secularism and religion
Product details
- ISBN 9780520270992
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Spirits of Protestantism" reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing on archival and ethnographic sources, Pamela E. Klassen shows how and why the very notion of healing within North America has been infused with a Protestant "supernatural liberalism." In the course of coming to their changing vision of healing, liberal Protestants became pioneers three times over: in the struggle against the cultural and medical pathologizing of homosexuality; in the critique of Christian missionary triumphalism; and, in the diffusion of an ever-more ubiquitous anthropology of "body, mind, and spirit." At a time when the political and anthropological significance of Christianity is being hotly debated, "Spirits of Protestantism" forcefully argues for a reconsideration of the historical legacies and cultural effects of liberal Protestantism, even for the anthropology of religion itself.
Pamela E. Klassen is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America.
