Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid
Melani McAlister, author of The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals“A remarkable achievement. Holy Humanitarians offers valuable insights into issues of domestic inequality, Christian–Muslim encounters abroad, and Americans’ ambivalent attitudes about the suffering of distant others. This thoughtful, nuanced exploration of the contradictions of humanitarian sentiment is rich and compelling.”
Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture
Lauren F. Winner, in Books and Culture: A Christian Review"Heather Curtis has done both the historical guild and the church a great favor in so elegantly narrating the history of a movement that challenged long-standing assumptions about the spiritual utility of corporal pain—and, in so doing, remapped our imaginations and transformed our understanding of suffering."
Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize
from the American Society of Church History
for the best first book in the History of Christianity