Plato's ghost spiritualism in the American Renaissance
In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to seance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed as the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a feminist movement. Here, Gutierrez places spiritualism in the context of the 19th-century American Renaissanc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2009, c2009
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| Series: | AAR reflection and theory in the study of religion / AAR reflection and theory in the study of religion
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to seance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed as the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a feminist movement. Here, Gutierrez places spiritualism in the context of the 19th-century American Renaissance |
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| Physical Description: | 240 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780199866472 0199866473 |