Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer: The Life and Work of the First African American Healing Evangelist (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815629320)

This new edition places Sarah Mix (1832-1884) in the context of American religious history, and shows her influence on the emerging faith healing movement and other female healing evangelists, including Carrie Judd Montgomery and Maria Woodworth-Etter. The divine healing movement, also known as faith healing or faith cure was a significant phenomenon in American religion and culture in the late nineteenth century. More importantly, during this period of the divine healing movement, women occupied a central role as practitioners.

Both the religious and secular press reported her ministry, which was so successful that physicians referred patients to her. In 1882 Sarah Mix published Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer, which includes an account of her own healing of tuberculosis by a Methodist minister, letters of testimony from individuals who experienced her gift of healing, and press notices.

Author: Mrs Edward Mix
ISBN-10: 081562932X
ISBN-13: 9780815629320
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2002
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.92w x 0.94d