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Author: Cathy GutierrezPublisher:
ISBN: 9788885708303
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The occult in nineteenth-century America [electronic resource]
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Author: Cathy GutierrezPublisher:
ISBN: 9788885708303
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Occult in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Cathy GutierrezPublisher: The Davies Group, Publishers
ISBN: 9781888570830
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Occult Nineteenth Century
Author: Lukas PokornyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030553183
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
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.
The Occult in America
Author: Howard KerrPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Occult America
Author: Mitch HorowitzPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553385151
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas—from Freemasonry to Spiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to Edgar Cayce—dramatically altered the nation’s culture, politics, and religion. Yet the mystical roots of our identity are often ignored or overlooked. Opening a new window on the past, Occult America presents a dramatic, pioneering study of the esoteric undercurrents of our history and their profound impact across modern life.
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Author: John Patrick DeveneyPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791431191
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
His most enduring claim to fame is the crucial role he played in the transformation of spiritualism, a medium's passive reception of messages from the spirits of the dead, into occultism, the active search for personal spiritual realization and inner vision.
Ghosts of Futures Past
Author: Molly McGarryPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520274539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Page opposite title page.
Radical Spirits
Author: Ann BraudePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253056306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
“Braude has discovered a crucial link between the early feminists and the spiritualists who so captured the American imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women’s rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women’s history. In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of women’s history in general and the women’s rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students. “It would be hard to imagine a book that more insightfully combined gender, social, and religious history together more perfectly than Radical Spirits. Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women’s creativity—spiritual as well as political—in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement.” —Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University “Continually rewarding.” —The New York Times Book Review “A fascinating, well-researched, and scholarly work on a peripheral aspect of the rise of the American feminist movement.” —Library Journal “A vitally important book . . . [that] has . . . influenced a generation of young scholars.” —Marie Griffith, associate director of the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University “An insightful book and a delightful read.” —Journal of American History
The Occult Nineteenth Century
Author: Lukas PokornyPublisher:
ISBN: 9783030553197
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. Lukas Pokorny is Professor and Chair in Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. Franz Winter is Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Graz, Austria.
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Author: John Patrick DeveneyPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438401043
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
This is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccentric path in the mid-nineteenth century from the slums of New York's Five Points to the courts of Europe, where he performed as a spiritualist trance medium. Although self-educated, he became one of the first Black American novelists and took a leading part in raising Black soldiers for the Union army and in educating Freedmen in Louisiana during the Civil War. His enduring claim to fame, however, is the crucial role he played in the transformation of spiritualism, a medium's passive reception of messages from the spirits of the dead, into occultism, the active search for personal spiritual realization and inner vision. From his experiences in his solitary travels in England, France, Egypt and the Turkish Empire in the 1850s and 1860s, he brought back to America a system of occult beliefs and practices (the magic mirror, hashish use and sexual magic) that worked a revolution. The systems of magic he taught left their traces on many subsequent occultists, including Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophical Society, and are still practiced today by several occult organizations in Europe and American that carry on his work. This is the fist scholarly work on Randolph and includes the full text of his two most important manuscript works on sexual magic.