The Faith Healers

Author: James Randi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Exposes the pretension and fraud that surrounds the faith healer business, revealing how alleged faith healers prey on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of the people they preach to.

The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Author: Manuel Muñoz
Publisher: Salt Publishing
ISBN: 9781844714742
Category : Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Manuel Mu�oz's dazzling second collection finds the author returning, once again, to the small towns of California's Central Valley. Set in a neighborhood with characters whose lives often intersect with each other, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue offers ten stories about a wide range of lives: a mother coping with a mortally injured son after his motorcycle accident; a single father returning from San Francisco and attempting a reconciliation with an estranged sister; a young woman trying to provide safe haven to her cousin fleeing a vicious boyfriend; and a teenager who sees himself in the trials of the town's most-gossiped-about resident. How these characters cross paths reveal a neighborhood shaped by misunderstandings and long-held secrets, and show how a community can be both embracing and unforgiving, revealing a truth about the nature of home: you always live with its history.Stories from The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue were previously published in Epoch, Glimmer Train (marking Manuel's third appearance in this literary journal), Rush Hour, and Swink. His work has appeared in many other journals, including The Massachusetts Review, The Colorado Review, Boston Review, and Puerto del Sol, and has also been broadcast on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts.

Faith Healer

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Faber & Faber Plays
ISBN: 9780571333882
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A about the life of the faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy.

Refugia Faith

Author: Debra Rienstra
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506473806
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth explores how Christian spirituality and practice must adapt to prepare for life on a climate-altered planet. Refugia (reh-FU-jee-ah) is a biological term describing places of shelter where life endures in times of crisis, such as a volcanic eruption, fire, or stressed climate. Ideally, these refugia endure, expand, and connect so that new life emerges. Debra Rienstra applies this concept to human culture and faith, asking, In this era of ecological devastation, how can Christians become people of refugia? How can we find and nurture these refugia, not only in the biomes of the earth, but in our human cultural systems and in our spiritual lives? How can we apply all our love and creativity to this task as never before? Rienstra recounts her own process of reeducation--beginning not as a scientist or an outdoors enthusiast but by examining the wisdom of theologians and philosophers, farmers and nature writers, scientists and activists, and especially people on the margins. By weaving nature writing, personal narrative, and theological reflection, Rienstra grapples honestly with her own fears and longings and points toward a way forward--a way to transform Christian spirituality and practice, become a healer on a damaged earth, and inspire others to do the same. Refugia Faith speaks to people securely within the faith as well as to those on the edge, providing a suitable entry for those who sense that this era of upheaval requires a transformed faith but who don't quite know where to begin.

Faith Healer

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573608797
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
In this darkly lyrical tale of a traveling faith healer roaming through Scotland and Wales with his wife and his manager, the author has created a metaphorical portrait of the artist as both creator and destroyer. The Broadway production starred James Mason.--From publisher description.

John of God

Author: Cristina Rocha
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190466715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This book investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork throughout Brazil, the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, Cristina Rocha examines the social and cultural forces that have made it possible for an illiterate, mostly unknown faith healer in Brazil to become a global "guru" of the 21st century.

Faith in the Great Physician

Author: Heather D. Curtis
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
This history of evangelical faith healing in nineteenth-century America examines the nation’s shifting attitudes about sickness, suffering, and health. Faith in the Great Physician tells the story of how participants in the divine healing movement transformed the ways Americans coped with physical affliction and pursued bodily wellbeing. Heather D. Curtis offers critical reflection on the theological, cultural, and social forces that come into play when one questions the purpose of suffering and the possibility of healing. Belief in divine healing ran counter to a deep-seated Christian ethic that linked physical suffering with spiritual holiness. By engaging in devotional disciplines and participating in social reform efforts, proponents of faith cure embraced a model of spiritual experience that endorsed active service, rather than passive endurance, as the proper Christian response to illness and pain. Emphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture. Recipient of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for 2007

Murder and the Faith Healer

Author: Anthony Wolff
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496901568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Can faith be a weapon that is used against the believer? Someone is trying to kill the heiress of an estate or use her faith to have her declared unfit to manage her affairs. The detectives must discover who is trying to harm her. Are the threats against her coming from outside the house or from someone who is living in stealth within its walls? Are those who stand closest to a target the ones who are most likely to strike it?

Faith Healer

Author: R. Morgan
Publisher: R. Morgan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
The Faith Healer takes place in the year 1860. A priest, Father Noe Cruz, journeys to the town of Hearts. Noe is asked by the church to observe and report on faith healer named Manuel Cantu. Noe discovers that ability and Manuel and the goodness in his soul. Unfortunately for Noe that is the not the only discovery he makes. Awaiting for him is the embodiment of pure evil. Together Noe and Manuel will battle this evil. This is third of four installments in the series Thru the Shadows. Journey thru this adventure as it leads to the conclusion of the series.

Why faith healing?

Author: Michael Owen Jones
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823139
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Occupational choice is the subject of the first section of this work. The remaining parts deal with the reasons patients avail themselves of the services of the faith healer, as well as the motivations for becoming a faith healer.