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Healing the Nation: Literature, Progress, and Christian Science (Religion in North America)

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Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the wealthy and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture. Mary Baker Eddy’s Church of Christ, Scientist was once one of the most fastest growing and most controversial religious movements in the US, and it is no coincidence that its influence touched the lives and work of many American writers, including Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, and Mark Twain. Squires makes a speciality of personal stories of sickness and healing―whether supportive or deeply critical of Christian Science’s recommendations –penned in a moment when the struggle between religion and science framed debates about how the US was once to transform a brand new nation. As outsized personalities and outlandish rhetoric took to the stage, Squires examines how the poorly understood Christian Science movement contributed to popular narratives about how one can heal the nation and advance the reason for human progress.


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