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 :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195388350 0195388356 9780199736768 0199736766 1282335731 9781282335738 |