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"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the "San" was a combination spa and Mayo Clinic. Founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and presided over by the charismatic Dr. Kellogg, it catered to many well-heeled health seekers including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Presidents Taft and Harding. It also supported a hospital, research facilities, a medical school, a nursing school, several health food companies, and a publishing house dedicated to producing materials on health and wellness. Rather than focusing on Kellogg as the eccentric creator of corn flakes or a megalomaniacal quack, Brian C. Wilson takes his role as a physician and a theological innovator seriously and places his religion of "Biologic Living" in an on-going tradition of sacred health and wellness. With the fascinating and unlikely story of the "San" as a backdrop, Wilson traces the development of this theology of physiology from its roots in antebellum health reform and Seventh-day Adventism to its ultimate accommodation of genetics and eugenics in the Progressive Era"-- "While the tradition of purveyors of alternative or spiritualized medicine stretches back to the colonial period, few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its hey-day, the "San" was a combination spa and Mayo Clinic. Founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and presided over by the charismatic leadership of Kellogg, it catered to many well-heeled health seekers including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Presidents Taft and Harding. It also supported a hospital, research facilities, a medical school, a nursing school, several health food companies, and a publishing house dedicated to producing materials on health and wellness. Rather than focusing on Kellogg as the eccentric creator of corn flakes or a megalomaniacal quack, Brian C. Wilson takes his role as a theological innovator seriously and places his religion of "Biologic Living" in an on-going tradition of sacred health and wellness. Wilson traces the development of this theology of physiology from its roots in antebellum health reform and Seventh-day Adventism to its ultimate accommodation of genetics and eugenics in the Progressive Era"--

RELIGION / Christianity / Seventh-Day Adventist. --- RELIGION / Spirituality. --- Hygienists --- Physicians --- Hygieists --- Public health personnel --- Kellogg, John Harvey, --- Kellogg, J. H. --- Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.) --- Western Health Reform Institute --- Percy Jones General Hospital (Battle Creek, Mich.) --- Medical and Surgical Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.) --- History.

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What is Religion? consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the acedamic study of religion. Each of the essays is an effort not only to take stock of the present controversy concerning appropriate methodologies for the study of religion, but also to take one giant step beyond that to formulate a precise definition of religion. Given the considerable confusion today about what it is exactly that religious studies scholars take to be their subject matter when they presume to professionally teachabout religion, this volume provides a much needed forum for leading scholars to debate and clarify what professors of religious studies understand as the central object or objects under their scrunity.

Religious studies --- Religion. --- Religion --- 291.11 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- 291.11 Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- Religious history. --- Study and teaching. --- origins, definitions and explanations of religion --- methodologies for the study of religion --- social formation --- religious plurality --- history of religion --- Theology.

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Comparative religion --- Religion --- Religions. --- Religions --- Methodology. --- Study and teaching. --- Méthodologie --- Etude et enseignement --- -Religion --- -Religions --- 291 --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Methodology --- Study and teaching --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Méthodologie --- Religion - Methodology --- Religion - Study and teaching

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John Earl Fetzer (1901-1991) --- biography --- Fetzer Foundation --- parapsychological research --- spiritualism --- theosophy --- freemasonry --- parapsychology --- New Age --- ufology --- Seventh-day Adventism --- divination --- hermeticism --- rosicrucianism --- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1893) --- UFOs --- channeling