Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America

by Rennie B. Schoepflin

In Christian Science on Trial, historian Rennie B. Schoepflin shows how Christian Science healing became a viable alternative to medicine at the end of the nineteenth century. Christian Scientists did not simply evangelize for their religious beliefs; they engaged in a healing business that offered a therapeutic alternative to many patients for whom medicine had proven unsatisfactory. Tracing the evolution of Christian Science during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801870577
• ISBN13: 9780801870576
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 8.8"