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Malinda Cramer

Malinda Elliott Cramer (June 12, 1844 – August 2, 1906) was a founder of the Church of Divine Science, a healer, and an important figure in the early New Thought movement.

For the soap opera character, see Melinda Cramer.

Malinda Cramer

Malinda Elliott

(1844-06-12)June 12, 1844
Greensboro, Indiana, United States

August 2, 1906(1906-08-02) (aged 62)

San Francisco, California, United States

Woodlawn Park Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32539472/malinda-cramer

American

Minister, author

1887–1906

Home College

Founder of the Divine Science movement

Charles L. Cramer

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Biography[edit]

Cramer was born in Greensboro, Indiana, the daughter of Obediah and Mary Hinshaw Elliott. Hoping to alleviate a persistent health problem, she moved to San Francisco in 1872, where she met Charles Lake Cramer, a photographer, whom she married in 1872.[1] Despite the move, health problems continued to plague her, making her an effective invalid.


In 1885, perhaps under the impetus of Christian Scientist Miranda Rice,[2] Cramer had what she described as a divine revelation after an "hour of earnest mediation and prayerful seeking"[3] and "that hour was the beginning of my realization of the oneness of Life, [and] a gleam of its Truth flashed across my mental vision".[4] Within two years she was healed.[5]

Divine Science And Healing.

Malinda Cramer was the author of several books, including:[12]

Albanese, Catherine L. (January 2007). . Yale University Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-300-11089-0.

A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion

Cramer, Malinda (1923) , Colorado College of Divine Science, Denver.

Divine Science and Healing

First Divine Science Church of Denver, , accessed May 2008.

"Centennial"

Keller, Rosemary Skinner; Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon (eds.) (2006). Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press. p. 758.  0-253-34687-8. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)

ISBN

Miller, Timothy (January 1995). . SUNY Press. p. 326. ISBN 0-7914-2397-2.

America's Alternative Religions

Archived August 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 2008.

Divine Science page on Malinda Cramer

Gale Publishing (2008) "Malinda Cramer" in Contemporary Authors Online. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. . Accessed May 2008.

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Gale Publishing (2008) "Nona Lovell Brooks" and "Malinda Cramer" in Religious Leaders of America. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. . Accessed May 2008.

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Satter, Beryl (2001) Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920, University of California Press,  978-0-520-22927-3.

ISBN

accessed May 2008.

Spiritual Enlightenment.org

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