"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.
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