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Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood

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ISBN13: 9780312180546
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From Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christian Science, to Deepak Chopra, Americans have struggled with the connection between health and happiness. Barbara Wilson used to be taught by her Christian Scientist circle of relatives that there used to be no sickness or evil, and that by maintaining this belief she would be safe. But such beliefs were challenged when Wilson’s own mother died of breast cancer after deciding to not are trying to find medical attention, having been driven mad by the contradiction between her religion and her reality. In this perceptive and textured memoir, Wilson surveys the complex history of Christian Science and the role of women in religion and healing.

Often caricatured as the religion that rejects medical remedy, Christian Science gets a balanced, nuanced appraisal in this memoir by a creator who grew up within the faith. Barbara Wilson appreciates Christian Science’s ordinary openness to women, who gained self-respect and status as its practitioners and healers, but she bares its inadequacies in a wrenching account of her mother’s battle with cancer, suicide attempt, and eventual death. Her precise, unsentimental prose delineates a decades-long journey toward self-knowledge and peace with her past: it is a very American saga, sensitively told.
ISBN13: 9780312180546
Condition: New
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