Laboratories of Faith : Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monroe, John Warne, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Okkultismus.
Spiritismus.
Mesmerismus.
Spiritismus
Okkultismus
Mesmerismus
Spiritualism.
Religion.
Occultism.
Mesmerism.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Occultisme > France > Histoire.
Spiritisme > France > Histoire.
Mesmerisme > France > Histoire.
Occultism > France > History.
Spiritualism > France > History.
Mesmerism > France > History.
Frankreich.
Frankreich
France.
France > Religion > 20th century.
France > Religion > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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