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Skeptics of faith healers point to fraudulent practices either in the healings themselves (such as plants in the audience with fake illnesses), or concurrent with the healing work supposedly taking place and claim that faith healing is a quack practice in which the "healers" use well known non-supernatural illusions to exploit credulous people ...
In Louisiana, the term traiteur (sometimes spelled treateur) describes a man or woman (a traiteuse [1]) who practises what is sometimes called faith healing.A traiteur is a Creole (or Cajun) healer or a traditional healer of the French-speaking Houma Tribe, whose primary method of treatment involves using the laying on of hands.
McPherson considered each faith healing incident a sacred gift from God, the glory of Jesus Christ, passed through her to persons healed and not to be taken for granted. [ 119 ] [ 111 ] Divine healing, in her view, was a church sacrament rather than entertainment. [ 121 ]
The Faith Healers is a 1987 book by conjurer and skeptic James Randi.In this book, Randi documents his exploration of the world of faith healing, exposing the tricks that religious con artists use in their healing shows to fool the audience.
Pages in category "Faith healers" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Luisa Abano; Frank Andre;
Asa Alonso Allen (March 27, 1911 – June 11, 1970), better known as A. A. Allen, was an American Pentecostal evangelist known for his faith healing and deliverance ministry. He was, for a time, associated with the "Voice of Healing" movement founded by Gordon Lindsay.
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Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and abroad holding healing meetings between the 1940s and 1970s. She was considered to be one of the most well-known faith healers in the world; however, the term faith healer was something she rejected as offensive.