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“And O’er Earth’s Troubled, Angry Sea”: The History of Christian Science in the United States
Introduction
Chapter 1: “Mary Baker Eddy’s ‘Church of 1879’: Boisterous Prelude to The Mother Church,” Nova Religio 22, no. 1 (August 2018): 87-114.
Chapter 2 “’You Are Brave but You are a Woman in the Eyes of Men’: Augusta E. Stetson’s Rise and Fall in the Church of Christ, Scientist.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 24, no. 1(Spring 2008): 75-89.
Chapter 3: “Pilgrims at the Golden Gate: Christian Scientists on the Pacific Coast, 1880-1915.” Pacific Historical Review 72, no. 2 (May 2003): 229-262.
Chapter 4: “’A State of Unrest and Division’: Christian Science in Oregon, 1890-1910.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Winter 2005/2006): 11-18.
Chapter 5: “The ‘Seekers of the Light’: Christian Scientists in the United States, 1890-1910.” International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society 1, no. 3 (2011): 115-144.
Chapter 6: “Eddy’s Immigrants: Foreign-Born Christian Scientists in the United States, 1880-1925.” International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society 2, no. 3 (2012): 21-39.
Chapter 7: “’Our Cause … Does Not Need Advertising, but Protection’: The Christian Science Movement Regroups, 1908-1910.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion 10, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 29-79.
Chapter 8: “A “Green Oak in a Thirsty Land’: The Christian Science Board of Directors Routinizes Charisma, 1910-1925,” Nova Religio 24, no. 2 (November 2020): 32-58.
Chapter 9: “’This is the Way, Walk Ye in It’: Rebuilding the Christian Science Movement,” Cultural and Religious Studies 2, no. 1 (January 2014): 45-58.
Conclusion
Bibliographic Essay
Biography
Rolf Swensen served as Acting Chief Librarian of Queens College, City University of New York, Chief Archivist of the National Archives of Papua New Guinea, and University Archivist of Oregon State University. Besides the articles reprinted and cited in this volume, he published scholarly articles on Iowa and Oregon newspaper and magazine editor Col. Ernst Hofer (1855-1934), Yellowstone Park, and bibliographic instruction in Eastern Europe, as well as five entries in Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists (1997). His Ph.D. in United States History, with a minor in Ancient Rome, was awarded by the University of Oregon.
