Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Spiritualism versus pseudo-Swedenborgianism
Author: William HowittMagicon
Author: Dr. PaulusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jerusalem Church
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The History of Spiritualism..
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427081824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A Three-fold Test of Modern Spiritualism
Author: William Robert GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Perception the Best Witness to the Truth of Swedenborg's Revelation, of the Spiritual Sense of the Word, a Paper Read Before the Swedenborg Reading Society
Author: Elihu RichPseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America
Author: Arthur WrobelPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813186757
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that turbulent age appeared to offer bright new answers to life's age-old questions. Such a climate, not surprisingly, fostered the growth of what we now view as "pseudo-sciences"—disciplines delicately balancing a dubious inductive methodology with moral and spiritual concerns, disseminated with a combination of aggressive entrepreneurship and sheer entertainment. Such "sciences" as mesmerism, spiritualism, homoeopathy, hydropathy, and phrenology were warmly received not only by the uninformed and credulous but also by the respectable and educated. Rationalistic, egalitarian, and utilitarian, they struck familiar and reassuring chords in American ears and gave credence to the message of reformers that health and happiness are accessible to all. As the contributors to this volume show, the diffusion and practice of these pseudo-sciences intertwined with all the major medical, cultural, religious, and philosophical revolutions in nineteenth-century America. Hydropathy and particularly homoeopathy, for example, enjoyed sufficient respectability for a time to challenge orthodox medicine. The claims of mesmerists and spiritualists appeared to offer hope for a new moral social order. Daring flights of pseudo-scientific thought even ventured into such areas as art and human sexuality. And all the pseudo-sciences resonated with the communitarian and women's rights movements. This important exploration of the major nineteenth-century pseudo-sciences provides fresh perspectives on the American society of that era and on the history of the orthodox sciences, a number of which grew out of the fertile soil plowed by the pseudo-scientists.
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
Author: James HastingsPublisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 1808
Book Description
Swedenborg and Modern Biblical Criticism
Author: Edwin GouldEncyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Dravidians-Fichte
Author: James HastingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology.
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