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Spiritualism in the American Renaissance
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Artikel-Nr:
9780195388350
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.09.2009
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Cathy Gutierrez
Gewicht:
499 g
Format:
236x155x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Guiterrez is the Associate Professor of Religion at Sweetbriar College
Cathy Gutierrez places Spiritualism in the context of the 19th-century American Renaissance. Although this epithet usually signifies the sudden blossoming of American letters, Gutierrez points to its original meaning: a cultural imagination enraptured with the past and the classics in particular, accompanied by a cultural efflorescence. Gutierrez's study of this fascinating and important movement is organized thematically. She analyzes Spiritualist conceptions of memory, marriage, medicine, and minds, explores such phenomena as machines for contacting the dead, spirit-photography, the idea of eternal spiritual affinity (which implied the necessity for marriage reform), the connection between health and spirituality, and mesmerism.
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