{"product_id":"gods-perfect-child-living-and-dying-in-the-christian-science-church-twentieth-anniversary-edition-paperback","title":"God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Christian Scientist Caroline Fraser comes the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMillions of Americans - from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman - have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, Christian Science was based on a belief that intense contemplation of the perfection of God can heal all ills - an extreme expression of the American faith in self-reliance. In this unflinching investigation, Caroline Fraser, herself raised in a Scientist household, shows how the Church transformed itself from a small, eccentric sect into a politically powerful and socially respectable religion, and explores the human cost of Christian Science's remarkable rise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFraser examines the strange life and psychology of Mary Baker Eddy, who lived in dread of a kind of witchcraft she called Malicious Animal Magnetism. She takes us into the closed world of Eddy's followers, who refuse to acknowledge the existence of illness and death and reject modern medicine, even at the cost of their children's lives. She reveals just how Christian Science managed to gain extraordinary legal and Congressional sanction for its dubious practices and tracks its enormous influence on new-age beliefs and other modern healing cults. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA passionate exposé of zealotry, \u003ci\u003eGod's Perfect Child\u003c\/i\u003e tells one of the most dramatic and little-known stories in American religious history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Plutarch Award, and the Heartland Prize. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42640952164448,"sku":"9781250219046","price":60.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/Zm8vUmo4endhemFvaHAyMk5MSElCQT09.webp?v=1773161327","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/gods-perfect-child-living-and-dying-in-the-christian-science-church-twentieth-anniversary-edition-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}