Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920 Vol 5

Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920 Vol 5
Author: Shane McCorristine
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1950
Release: 2021-12-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000561488

This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.

Spiritualism's Place

Spiritualism's Place
Author: Averill Earls
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501777289

In Spiritualism's Place, four friends and scholars who produce the acclaimed Dig: A History Podcast, share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the history of Lily Dale. Located in western New York State, the world's largest center for Spiritualism was founded in 1879. Lily Dale has been a home for Spiritualists attempting to make contact with the dead, as well as a gathering place for reformers, a refuge for seekers looking for alternatives to established paths of knowledge, and a target for skeptics. This intimate history of Lily Dale reveals the role that this fascinating place has played within the history of Spiritualism, as well as within the development of the women's suffrage and temperance movements, and the world of New Age religion. As an intentional community devoted to Spiritualist beliefs and practices, Lily Dale brings together multiple strands in the social and religious history of New York and the United States over the past 150 years: feminism, social reform, utopianism, new religious movements, and cultural appropriation. Podcasters and historians alike, Averill Earls, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Elizabeth Garner Masarik, and Marissa C. Rhodes each identify one site in Lily Dale and one theme that its history illuminates. They use those sites and themes to approach Lily Dale not as debunkers but as inquisitive researchers and storytellers. At the same time, they also reflect on their own relationships contending that it's never quite possible to separate grief, hope, faith, and friendship from understandings of the past. Spiritualism's Place breaks myths, unveils unexpected stories, and finds new ways to contemplate Spiritualism's role in American history.

Lewis Carroll Among His Books

Lewis Carroll Among His Books
Author: Charlie Lovett
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-01-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476609411

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--known better by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll--was a 19th century English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist. He is especially remembered for his children's tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. By the time of Dodgson's death in 1898, Alice (the integration of the two volumes) had become the most popular children's book in England. By the time of his centenary in 1932, it was perhaps the most famous in the world. This book presents a complete catalogue of Dodgson's personal library, with attention to every book the author is known to have owned or read. Alphabetized entries fully describe each book, its edition, its contents, its importance, and any particular relevance it might have had to Dodgson. The library not only provides a plethora of fodder for further study on Dodgson, but also reflects the Victorian world of the second half of the 19th century, a time of unprecedented investigation, experimentation, invention, and imagination. Dodgson's volumes represent a vast array of academic interests from Victorian England and beyond, including homeopathic medicine, spiritualism, astrology, evolution, women's rights, children's literature, linguistics, theology, eugenics, and many others. The catalogue is designed for scholars seeking insight into the mind of Charles Dodgson through his books.

Confessions of a Medium

Confessions of a Medium
Author: William Chapman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre:
ISBN:

Published anonymously in 1882, Confessions of a Medium is the thinly-disguised factual account of the partnership between two important mediums of the 1870s and early 1880s: the Englishman William Chapman, and the American Alfred H. Firman. Written by Chapman in the wake of Firman's abandonment of Chapman on the Continent, and Firman's subsequent "self-exposure" tour of English provincial towns, Confessions of a Medium is unique in the Spiritualist canon: an indubitably factual account of mediumistic work that gives its readers insight not only into the practices of fraudulent mediums, but also into the business of Spiritualism in nineteenth-century England, and into the milieu - the people, places and ideas - within which mediums practiced their profession.

Spiritism

Spiritism
Author: Eduard von Hartmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108052711

Published in 1885, this was one of the first works to attempt a complete psychological explanation of all occult phenomena.

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1972
Genre: Parapsychology
ISBN:

Light

Light
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1882
Genre: Parapsychology
ISBN: