Author: Albert Léon GuérardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
French Prophets of Yesterday
Author: Albert Léon GuérardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1906
Book Description
Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution
Author: Deborah KennedyPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Eventually settling in Paris with her mother and two sisters, Williams hosted a Parisian salon that was frequented by many of Europe's most important politicians, artists, writers, and thinkers, including J. P. Brissot, Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Alexander von Humboldt.".
The London Quarterly & Holborn Review
Author: Register ... with Announcements for ...
Author: University of California (System)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Register
Author: University of California, BerkeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
Book Description
Register of the University of California
Author: University of California, BerkeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: University of California (1868-1952)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Laboratories of Faith
Author: John Warne MonroePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801461715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
At a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rejection of scientific thought; participants in séances and magic rituals were seekers after experimental data as well as spiritual truth. A young astronomy student wrote of his quest: "I am not in the presence or under the influence of any evil spirit: I study Spiritism as I study mathematics." He did not see himself as an ecstatic visionary but rather as a sober observer. For him, the darkened room of occult practice was as much laboratory as church. In an evocative history of alternative religious practices in France in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, John Warne Monroe tells the interconnected stories of three movements—Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism. Adherents of these groups, Monroe reveals, attempted to "modernize" faith by providing empirical support for metaphysical concepts. Instead of trusting theological speculation about the nature of the soul, these believers attempted to gather tangible evidence through Mesmeric experiments, séances, and ceremonial magic. While few French people were active Mesmerists, Spiritists, or Occultists, large segments of the educated general public were familiar with these movements and often regarded them as fascinating expressions of the "modern condition," a notable contrast to the Catholicism and secular materialism that prevailed in their culture. Featuring eerie spirit photographs, amusing Daumier lithographs, and a posthumous autograph from Voltaire, as well as extensive documentary evidence, Laboratories of Faith gives readers a sense of what being in a séance or a secret-society ritual might actually have felt like and why these feelings attracted participants. While they never achieved the transformation of human consciousness for which they strove, these thinkers and believers nevertheless pioneered a way of "being religious" that has become an enduring part of the Western cultural vocabulary.