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Keeping the Faith, Discerning the Divine: Terms and Conditions in New Research on Christianity and Healing in North America - Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860–1900. By Heather D. Curtis. Lived Religions. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xvi + 272 pp. $49.95 cloth. - The Lord for the Body: Religion, Medicine, and Protestant Faith Healing in Canada, 1880–1930. By James Opp. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, series 2, volume 36. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. x + 274 pp. $65.00 cloth. - When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law. By Shawn Francis Peters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 263 pp. $29.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2009

Pamela E. Klassen
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

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Copyright © American Society of Church History 2009

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1 My summary of Opp's, book is partly drawn from an earlier review I published in Studies in Religion/Etudes Religieuses 38:1 (2009)Google Scholar.