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Williams deserves credit for the care with which he treats his subjects in this outstanding book. It will interest students of American religion, Pentecostalism, and the relationships between religion and health ... Highly recommended. * A.W. Klink, CHOICE *

Lucid and engaging Spirit Cure sheds light on the dynamics of innovation, adaptation, and exchange that have helped fuel the appeal of this Christian movement in a variety of historical and geographic contexts. --History of Religions A fresh, nuanced, and dynamic reading of Pentecostal healing . thoroughly researched, sharply written, engaging, and thoughtful. --Church History Skillfully portrays the complex relationships among faith, culture, and belief... outstanding. --CHOICE Distinctive... thoroughly researched, logically organized, and clearly written. It tells a fascinating story... an excellent book that will be of interest to scholars of pentecostalism and divine healing, and more broadly to those interested in the history of modern medicine and complementary and alternative medicine, and America's commercialized, therapeutic culture. --The Journal of Southern Religion An important, well-written contribution to American religious history that brings to light intriguing connections between pentecostal and metaphysical traditions of healing in the United States. --Heather Curtis, author of Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900 The history of healing in Pentecostal and charismatic movements is anything but simple. Joseph Williams's carefully researched and thoughtful study provides an excellent guide for how divine spiritual healing has developed alongside a reliance on modern medicine and alternative cures, with a theology of demons and surprising trust in science, while partnering with both New Thought and empirical psychology. It is a fine study of an important subject. --Mark Noll, author of Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2011) Williams's book is a readable, fascinating account of a little-studied aspect of pentecostalism. He skillfully traces some of the powerful connections between New Thought, Christian Science, metaphysical religion and pentecostalism. Throughout Williams reveals pentecostalism's innovative character. --Randall J. Stephens, author of The Fire Spreads: The Origins of Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South Rather than a simple chronology, Joseph Williams offers an insightful perspective on the changes in pentecostal (author's usage) approaches to healing in the past century... Williams provides a balanced and nuanced account of a complex and controversial subject... Spirit Cure is filled with anecdotes and illustrations and is recommended reading for anyone interested in the history of pentecostalism and/or the history of divine healing. --Pneuma

Skillfully portrays the complex relationships among faith, culture, and belief... outstanding. --CHOICE An important, well-written contribution to American religious history that brings to light intriguing connections between pentecostal and metaphysical traditions of healing in the United States. --Heather Curtis, author of Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in AmericanCulture, 1860-1900 The history of healing in Pentecostal and charismatic movements is anything but simple. Joseph Williams's carefully researched and thoughtful study provides an excellent guide for how divine spiritual healing has developed alongside a reliance on modern medicine and alternative cures, with a theology of demons and surprising trust in science, while partnering with both New Thought and empirical psychology. It is a fine study of an important subject. --Mark Noll, author of Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2011) Williams's book is a readable, fascinating account of a little-studied aspect of pentecostalism. He skillfully traces some of the powerful connections between New Thought, Christian Science, metaphysical religion and pentecostalism. Throughout Williams reveals pentecostalism's innovative character. --Randall J. Stephens, author of The Fire Spreads: The Origins of Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South

<br> An important, well-written contribution to American religious history that brings to light intriguing connections between pentecostal and metaphysical traditions of healing in the United States. --Heather Curtis, author of Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in AmericanCulture, 1860-1900<p><br> The history of healing in Pentecostal and charismatic movements is anything but simple. Joseph Williams's carefully researched and thoughtful study provides an excellent guide for how divine spiritual healing has developed alongside a reliance on modern medicine and alternative cures, with a theology of demons and surprising trust in science, while partnering with both New Thought and empirical psychology. It is a fine study of an important subject. --Mark Noll, author of Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2011)<p><br> Williams's book is a readable, fascinating account of a little-studied aspect of pentecostalism. He skillfully traces some of the powerful connections between New Thought, Christian Science, metaphysical religion and pentecostalism. Throughout Williams reveals pentecostalism's innovative character. --Randall J. Stephens, author of The Fire Spreads: The Origins of Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South<p><br>

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Joseph Williams is Assistant Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in American religious history from Florida State University in 2008.

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