The Secular Care of the Self: Discipline and Its Discontents Across the Protestant Atlantic

by Ian Whitmarsh

The modern desire to care for our health, so obvious to its proponents, has its discontents. Secular medicine denounces the work of those who claim the protective powers of spirits or the Holy Spirit. In this contestation over what it means to care for oneself, Ian Whitmarsh offers an unorthodox thesis: the modern secular desire toward health is founded in a Protestant congregationalism that shapes its refusal of spirit manifestation, revelation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826365914
• ISBN13: 9780826365910
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"