Laboratories of faith : mesmerism, spiritism, and occultism in modern France /
"In an evocative history of alternative religious practices in France in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, John Warne Monroe tells the interconnected stories of three movements - Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism. Adherents of these groups, Monroe rev...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Interpreting the tables tournantes, 1853-1856
- Mesmerism and the challenge of spiritualism, 1853-1859
- The invention and development of spiritism, 1857-1869
- Spiritism on trial, 1870-1880
- Confronting the multivalent self, 1880-1914
- Epilogue : the emergence of a new heterodoxy.