Author: Cathy Gutierrez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788885708303
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Howard Kerr
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Lukas Pokorny
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030553183
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga.

Author: Shane McCorristine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000561445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1950

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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.

Author: James Webb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Just when it seemed that Science and Reason had scored their greatest triumphs, the mid-mineteenth century witnessed an astonishing rebirth of occultism and anti-rationalism: the beginnings of the movement we now call New Age. A secret tradition of knowledge rejected by the Christian or Scientific establishments suddenly became emboldened to seek publicity and converts.

Author: Stephen E. Flowers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1644115751
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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A critical history of the roots of Nazi occultism and its continuing influence • Explores the occult influences on various Nazi figures, including Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, and Heinrich Himmler • Examines the foundations of the movement laid in the 19th century and continuing in the early 20th century • Explains the rites and runology of National Socialism, the occult dimensions of Nazi science, and how many of the sensationalist descriptions of Nazi “Satanic” practices were initiated by Church propaganda after the war In this comprehensive examination of Nazi occultism, Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., offers a critical history and analysis of the occult and esoteric streams of thought active in the Third Reich and the growth of occult Nazism at work in movements today. Sharing the culmination of five decades of research into primary and secondary sources, many in the original German, Flowers looks at the symbolic, occult, scientific, and magical traditions that became the foundations from which the Nazi movement would grow. He details the influences of Theosophy, Volkism, and the work of the Brothers Grimm as well as the impact of scientific culture of the time. Looking at the early 20th century, he describes the impact of Guido von List, Lanz von Liebenfels, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Friedrich Hielscher, and others. Examining the period after the Nazi Party was established in 1919, and more especially after it took power in 1933, Flowers explores the occult influences on key Nazi figures, including Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess, and Heinrich Himmler. He analyzes Hitler’s usually missed references to magical techniques in Mein Kampf, revealing his adoption of occult methods for creating a large body of supporters and shaping the thoughts of the masses. Flowers also explains the rites and runology of National Socialism, the occult dimensions of Nazi science, and the blossoming of Nazi Christianity. Concluding with a look at the modern mythology of Nazi occultism, Flowers critiques postwar Nazi-related literature and unveils the presence of esoteric Nazi myths in modern occult and political circles.

Author: Sarah A. Willburn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780754669128
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Pt. 1. Haunted laboratories and ghosts in the machine : spiritualism, science and technology -- pt. 2. Occulture : sex, politics, philosophy and poetics -- pt. 3. Staging the Victorian afterlife : from magic shows to dinner parties.

Author: Simone Natale
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.

Author: Paul Kleber Monod
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300123582
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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DIVDIVThis illuminating book reveals the surprising extent to which great and lesser knownthinkers of the Age of Enlightenment embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult./div/div

Author: Laura Otis
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801865275
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Defying the traditional boundary between science and the humanities, she concludes by proposing a notion of identity based on relations and connections.