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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Main Author: Gutierrez, Cathy, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Series:Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780195388350
0195388356
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0199736766
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