title: "Healing is a Done Deal": Temporality and Metabolic Healing Among Evangelical Christians in Samoa.
abstract: Drawing on fieldwork in independent Samoa, in this article, I analyze the temporal dimensions of evangelical Christian healing of metabolic disorders. I explore how those suffering with metabolic disorders draw from multiple time-based notions of healing, drawing attention to the limits of biomedicine in contrast with the effectiveness of Divine healing. By simultaneously engaging evangelical and biomedical temporalities, I argue that evangelical Christians create wellness despite sickness and, in turn, re-signify chronic suffering as a long-term process of Christian healing. Positioning biomedical temporality and evangelical temporality as parallel yet distinctive ways of practicing healing, therefore, influences health care choices.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Sociology and Anthropology , Pacific University , Forest Grove , Oregon , USA.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hardin
mesh_terms: D060432:Anthropology, Medical; D002835:Christianity; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy; D029221:Faith Healing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D018947:Samoa / Q000208:ethnology
keywords: Christianity; diabetes; healing; metabolic disorders; temporality