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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monroe, John Warne, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.