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Laboratories of Faith : Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France /
At a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rejection of scientific thought; participants in séances and magic rituals were seekers after experimental data as well as spiritual truth. A young astronomy student wrote of his quest: &quo...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Interpreting the Tables Tournantes, 1853-1856
- 2. Mesmerism and the Challenge of Spiritualism, 1853-1859
- 3. The Invention and Development of Spiritism, 1857-1869
- 4. Spiritism on Trial, 187o-188o
- 5. Confronting the Multivalent Self, 1880-1914
- Epilogue: The Emergence of a New Heterodoxy
- Bibliography
- Index