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Author | : Emily Ogden |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-03-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 022653247X |
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.
Author | : Andrea L. Lingle |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532615485 |
There were a million reasons to leave. But she didn’t. Faith deconstruction—asking questions and finding that religion doesn’t do a good job of answering them—has become a well-documented phenomenon within Christianity. Studies show that people are leaving the church. Accusations loom large in faith communities. Andrea L. Lingle didn’t leave. She had a million reasons to leave: grief, deconstruction, cynicism, disillusionment . . . but, she can still find a church bulletin in her purse most days. Credulous is a walk through the different movements of a traditional Christian worship service bulletin to wonder aloud, why? Why is she still here? What does she have to say, as a woman, mother, lay-person? And Credulous asks, what might you have to say?
Author | : E. S. (B. of D.) |
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Author | : Richard Williams Guidotti |
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Total Pages | : 456 |
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Author | : Rufus Blakeman |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Charisma (Personality trait) |
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Author | : Rufus Blakeman |
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Total Pages | : 258 |
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Author | : John R. Musick |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Witch of Salem; or, Credulity Run Mad" by John R. Musick. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : R. A. Davenport |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2023-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387081928 |
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Release | : 1855 |
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Author | : Scepticism |
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Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1814 |
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