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Book Review


Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America. By Rennie B. Schoepflin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 301 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-7057-7.)
Christian Science is a New Testament–derived therapeutic healing system that originated and developed in the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. It was suitable for a restless, impressionable, pragmatic people, or portion thereof, who were overwhelmed by the effects of the American Civil War and the Atlantic world's second industrial revolution. As such, did it merely reflect the unsettled time of its provenance, or did it bask in a unique light of its own? . . .
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