{"product_id":"gods-perfect-child-9780805044317","title":"God's Perfect Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a former Christian Scientist  the first unvarnished account of one of Americas most controversial and little-understood religious movements.  Millions of americans-from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman-have been touched by the Church of Christ  Scientist. Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879  Christian Science was based on a belief that intense contemplation of the perfection of God can heal all ills-an extreme expression of the American faith in self-reliance. In this unflinching investigation  Caroline Fraser  herself raised in a Scientist household  shows how the Church transformed itself from a small  eccentric sect into a politically powerful and socially respectable religion  and explores the human cost of Christian Sciences remarkable rise.  Fraser examines the strange life and psychology of Mary Baker Eddy  who lived in dread of a kind of witchcraft she called Malicious Animal Magnetism. She takes us into the closed world of Eddys followers  who refuse to acknowledge the existence of illness and death and reject modern medicine  even at the cost of their childrens lives. She reveals just how Christian Science managed to gain extraordinary legal and Congressional sanction for its dubious practices and tracks its enormous influence on new-age beliefs and other modern healing cults.  A passionate expos of zealotry  Gods Perfect Child tells one of the most dramatic and little-known stories in American religious history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648275177525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805044310","price":35.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805044317.jpg?v=1781715221","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/gods-perfect-child-9780805044317","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}