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Religious Healing in Boston: First Findings

edited by Susan Sered and Linda L. Barnes
May 8, 2001

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Susan Sered

Protestant Traditions

Healing Encounters in Two Communities: African American Protestantism and Christian Science
Kathryn Koliss

"For Waters Shall Break Forth in the Wilderness": Healing Generation X at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Cambridge
Scott Sang-Hyun Lee

God Always Heals but Does Not Always Cure: The Search for Healing in the Episcopal Church
Jennifer L. Hollis

"Faith Healing, Christian Science and Kindred Phenomona": Women and Healing in Late-Nineteenth-Century Boston
Heather D. Curtis

From the Global to the Local

Healing in the African Diaspora Communities of Boston
Linda L. Barnes, Kenneth Fox, Eugene Adams, Janice Desir, Martin Epson, Melissa Hackman, Breai Mason, and Chioma Nnaji

Honey, Hadiths, and Health Day: A Spectrum of Healing in the Daily Life of Boston Muslims
Amy E. Rowe

Jewish Healing in Boston
Susan Sered

The Range of Religious Healing Options in the Boston Vietnamese Community
Nam Ngyuen

Chinese Healing in Boston
Linda L. Barnes

Varieties of Catholic Healing

Unsung Heroines: Parish Nurses in the Roman Catholic Church
Sheila McMahon

Calling in the Specialist: Saints and Healing in Boston's North End
Rosemary S. Lloyd

Hanging Healing on Your Neck: The Catholic Custom of Scapulars
Sarah Ramer

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