Author: Robert HarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations, Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits and Their Communion with Mortals
Author: Robert HareExperimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations
Author: Robert HarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Dr. Hare's investigation into Spiritualism, giving evidence of spirit manifestations and communications. A large portion of this work deals with the morals of Christians.
Experimental investigation of the spirit manifestations, demonstrating the existence of spirits and their communion with mortals ... Also, the influence of Scripture on the morals of Christians ... Fifth edition
Author: Robert HARE (M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Enchanted Ground
Author: Sharon HatfieldPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0804040966
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In Enchanted Ground, Sharon Hatfield brings to life the true story of a nineteenth-century farmer-turned-medium, Jonathan Koons, one of thousands of mediums throughout the antebellum United States. In the hills outside Athens, Ohio, Koons built a house where it was said the dead spoke to the living, and where ancient spirits communicated the wisdom of the ages. Curious believers, in homespun and in city attire, traveled from as far as New Orleans to a remote Appalachian cabin whose marvels would rival any of P. T. Barnum’s attractions. Yet Koons’s story is much more than showmanship and sleight of hand. His enterprise, not written about in full until now, embodied the excitement and optimism of citizens breaking free from societal norms. Reform-minded dreamers were drawn to Koons’s seances as his progressive brand of religion displaced the gloomy Calvinism of previous generations. As heirs to the Second Great Awakening, which stretched from New York State to the far reaches of the Northwest Territory, the curious, the faithful, and Koons himself were part of a larger, uniquely American moment that still marks the cultural landscape today.
Experiments in Psychical Research at Leland Stanford Junior University
Author: John Edgar CooverPublisher:
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Word of God and Spirit Manifestations. ... New Edition
Author: John Henry SMITHSONThe Village Enlightenment in America
Author: Craig HazenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068287
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Village Enlightenment in America focuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. A theologian, writer, and apologist for the nascent Mormon movement, as well as an amateur scientist, Orson Pratt wrote Key to the Universe, or a New Theory of Its Mechanism, to establish a scientific base for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Robert Hare, an inventor and ardent convert to spiritualism, used his scientific expertise to lend credence to the spiritualist movement. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, generally considered the initiator of the American mind-cure movement, developed an overtly religious concept of science and used it to justify his system of theology. Pratt, Hare, and Quimby all employed a potent combination of popular science and Baconianism to legitimate their new religious ideas. Using the same terms--matter, ether, magnetic force--to account for the behavior of particles, planetary rotation, and the influence of the Holy Ghost, these agents of the Enlightenment constructed complex systems intended to demonstrate a fundamental harmony between the physical and the metaphysical. Through the lives and work of these three influential men, The Village Enlightenment in America opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.
Body and Soul
Author: Robert S. CoxPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813923905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A product of the "spiritual hothouse" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity. In Body and Soul, Robert Cox shows how Spiritualism sought to transform sympathy into social practice, arguing that each individual, living and dead, was poised within a nexus of affect, and through the active propagation of these sympathetic bonds, a new and coherent society would emerge. Phenomena such as spontaneous somnambulism and sympathetic communion with the dead—whether through séance or "spirit photography"—were ways of transcending the barriers dissecting the American body politic, including the ultimate barrier, death. Drawing equally upon social, occult, and physiological registers, Spiritualism created a unique "social physiology" in which mind was integrated into body and body into society, leading Spiritualists into earthly social reforms, such as women’s rights and anti-slavery. From the beginning, however, Spiritualist political and social expression was far more diverse than has previously been recognized, encompassing distinctive proslavery and antiegalitarian strains, and in the wake of racial and political adjustments following the Civil War, the movement began to fracture. Cox traces the eventual dissolution of Spiritualism through the contradictions of its various regional and racial factions and through their increasingly circumscribed responses to a changing world. In the end, he concludes, the history of Spiritualism was written in the limits of sympathy, and not its limitless potential.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult
Author: Tatiana KontouPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317042271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies and hundreds of articles that have appeared recently reflect the avid scholarly discussion of Victorian mystical practices. Designed both for those new to the field and for experts, this volume is organized into sections covering the relationship between Victorian spiritualism and science, the occult and politics, and the culture of mystical practices. The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult brings together some of the most prominent scholars working in the field to introduce current approaches to the study of nineteenth-century mysticism and to define new areas for research.
Abaddon and Mahanaim, Or, Daemons and Guardian Angels
Author: Joseph Frederick BergPublisher:
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Category : Angels
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description