The Course of GodÆs Providence - Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America

"This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity in the realms of narrative, medicine, missions, charity, and maternity"--

About the author

Philippa Koch is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Her research and teaching center on religion, health, and society in early America and its global context.

Product details

• Authors: Philippa Koch
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781479806683
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-0668-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: North American Religions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous