Frank Podmore

Modern Spiritualism - Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive history of Spiritualism by one of the foremost Victorian psychic researchers: an indispensable source on the movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781108072571
• ISBN-10: 1108072577
• Artikelnr.: 32934680

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Book I. The Pedigree of Spiritualism: 1. Possession and witchcraft
2. On poltergeists
3. The sympathetic system
4. Mesmer and his disciples
5. The second French commission
6. Spiritualism in France before 1848
7. The German somnambules
8. The English mesmerists
9. Community of sensation
10. Clairvoyance in England
11. Andrew Jackson Davis and the Univercoelum
Book II. Early American Spiritualism: 1. In Arcadia
2. Some dwellers in Arcadia
3. The physical phenomena
4. Clairvoyance and speaking with tongues
5. Trance writing and speaking
6. General survey of the movement.