| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Panacea Society and the Study of Religion -- The Archive -- The Structure of the Book -- Chapter One. The Panacea Society's Healing -- Seeking a Spiritual Cure -- Personal Stories -- Wider Benefits -- The Panacea Effect -- The Panacea Society -- Chapter Two. Sources of the Healing -- The Panacea Society and the Prophets -- The English Prophets -- Octavia -- The Theology of the Healing -- New Salvation -- The Female and the Fall -- Chapter Three. Understanding Religion -- Theories of Religious Change -- Patterns of Panacea Healing Affiliation -- Chapter Four. The Healing and Other Movements I: Great Britain -- New Movements and the Panacea Society -- New Movements and the Panacea Society's Healing Users -- Mainstream Religion -- Chapter Five. The Healing and Other Movements II: The United States, Jamaica, and Finland -- The United States -- Jamaica -- Finland -- The Panacea Society in the United States, Jamaica, and Finland -- Chapter Six. War and Anxiety -- Advertising and War -- War and the Healing -- Chapter Seven. Religious Language and Metaphysics -- Religious language -- Metaphysics -- Chapter Eight. Theories of Transcendence -- Contemporary Spirituality and the Healing -- Transcendence -- Postscript. The End of the Healing -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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