Sipco J. Vellenga

Hope for Healing: The Mobilization of Interest in Three Types of Religious Healing in the Netherlands since 1850

Social Compass August 28, 2008 Sipco J. Vellenga 1 citation

The author examines the development of the popularity of religious healing in the Netherlands since 1850 and the factors that contribute to its continuation. He focuses upon three traditions: devotional healing in Roman Catholicism, charismatic healing in Pentecostalism and paranormal healing in western esotericism. From 1850 to about 1965, interest in making a pilgrimage to holy places of...