Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing
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Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing

The Panacea Society in the Twentieth Century

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing

The Panacea Society in the Twentieth Century

About this book

A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.

The Panacea Society was a small religious community of women that was established in England in the early twentieth century. They followed the early nineteenth-century mystic Joanna Southcott, as well other emerging spiritual movements of the day, and developed a remarkable spiritual healing practice that spread around the world. Based on the thousands of letters held in the Society's healing archive, which were sent by ordinary people from around the world, Alastair Lockhart offers a detailed study of the religious ideas of religious seekers from the 1920s to the 1970s. Focusing on Great Britain, Finland, Jamaica, and the US, Lockhart provides unique insight into the personal nature of spirituality in recent times and how ancient and modern spiritual strands were harnessed to the needs of late-modern spiritual seekers. This book addresses debates about the complexity and meaning of the rise or decline of religion in the twentieth century and the processes involved in the formation of popular nontraditional spiritualities. It informs our understanding of global and transnational religions and recent forms of spiritual healing.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. The Panacea Society and the Study of Religion
  8. Chapter One. The Panacea Society’s Healing
  9. Chapter Two. Sources of the Healing
  10. Chapter Three. Understanding Religion
  11. Chapter Four. The Healing and Other Movements I: Great Britain
  12. Chapter Five. The Healing and Other Movements II: The United States, Jamaica, and Finland
  13. Chapter Six. War and Anxiety
  14. Chapter Seven. Religious Language and Metaphysics
  15. Chapter Eight. Theories of Transcendence
  16. Postscript. The End of the Healing
  17. Appendices
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover