Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Religion of Biologic Living

"While the tradition of purveyors of alternative or spiritualized medicine stretches back to the colonial period, few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its hey-day, the "San" was a combination spa and Mayo Clinic. Founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and presided over by the charismatic leadership of Kellogg, it catered to many well-heeled health seekers including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Presidents Taft and Harding. It also supported a hospital, research facilities, a medical school, a nursing school, several health food companies, and a publishing house dedicated to producing materials on health and wellness. Rather than focusing on Kellogg as the eccentric creator of corn flakes or a megalomaniacal quack, Brian C. Wilson takes his role as a theological innovator seriously and places his religion of "Biologic Living" in an on-going tradition of sacred health and wellness. Wilson traces the development of this theology of physiology from its roots in antebellum health reform and Seventh-day Adventism to its ultimate accommodation of genetics and eugenics in the Progressive Era"--

Product details

• Authors: Brian C Wilson, Brian C. Wilson, Wilson Brian C
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2014
• EAN: 9780253014474
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01447-4
• No. of pages: 265
• Series: Religion in North America; Religion in North America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies