Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing

At the University of Cambridge, Alastair Lockhart is Affiliate Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity and a Fellow of Hughes Hall.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Panacea Society and the Study of Religion 1. The Panacea Society’s Healing 2. Sources of the Healing 3. Understanding Religion 4. The Healing and Other Movements I: Great Britain 5. The Healing and Other Movements II: The United States, Jamaica, and Finland 6. War and Anxiety 7. Religious Language and Metaphysics 8. Theories of Transcendence Postscript: The End of the Healing Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

"The book offers intriguing insights into this fascinating movement and adds to our understanding of personal spirituality and recent forms of spiritual healing." — Religious Studies Review"Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing is a significant and novel contribution to the study of lived religion in the Panacea Society. The volume does an admirable job of summarizing themes from thousands of previously unexamined (and unavailable) letters." — Nova Religio"This is a comprehensive history of the Society from its origins to World War II—and includes a chapter on the healing—and is foundational for work in this field." — Jane Shaw, author of Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers