Faith healing in DC/Baltimore area
August 10, 2023 7:26 AM Subscribe
Hi all, I'm curious about faith healing and would like to witness it and experience it, if possible. Would anyone happen to know of any faith healers in the DC/Baltimore area? I would especially like to visit someone who enters a kind of trance while healing -- perhaps speaks in tongues. I've been trying to find Pentecostal and Charismatic churches around here, but it's hard to tell where there is healing, particularly of an ecstatic or enthusiastic sort. My interest, in all honesty, is anthropological.
Not directly related, but if you are interested in the anthropology of charismatic Christian experience, you might enjoy Tanya Luhrmann's work, an anthropologist who has studied the phenomenon for some time and written about it. Here's a piece about her.
posted by Rintrah at 9:16 AM on August 10, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Rintrah at 9:16 AM on August 10, 2023 [2 favorites]
Since you interest is anthropological, you may find the play Faith Healer to be of some relevance. I saw it on stage last week in Western Mass and quite enjoyed it. It looks at the faith healing from the healer side and is set in the UK and Ireland in the 1970s (?). While not directly what you are looking for, it may offer some tangentially related reading / viewing to give more depth to the topic.
posted by chiefthe at 9:54 AM on August 10, 2023
posted by chiefthe at 9:54 AM on August 10, 2023
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