Handbook of spiritualism and channeling /
Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and geographies, the Brill Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling presents modern spirit possession in a variety of contexts. Weaving together the interrelated movements of Spiritualism along with its specific Franco and Latin American currents,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Series: | Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ;
Volume 9. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART 1: Locating Spiritualism; 1: Mesmerism and the Psychological Dimension of Mediumship; 2: Spiritualism and the American Swedenborgian Current; 3: Dead Reckonings: Spirits and Corpses at the Crossroads; 4: Spirit Possession; 5: Queering the Séance: Bodies, Bondage, and Touching in Victorian Spiritualism; PART 2: In Conversation; 6: Man is a Spirit Here and Now: The Two Faces of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Creation of the Magical Occult Theosophical Spiritualist New Thought Amalgam.
- 7: Pinkie at Play: Postcolonialism, Politics, and Performance in Nettie Colburn Maynard's Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?8: Criticising the Dead: Spiritualism and the Oneida Community; 9: The Nature of Reality: Christian Science and Spiritualism; PART 3: New Directions; 10: Reincarnation: The Path to Progress; 11: Crossing Over: Allan Kardec and the Transnationalisation of Modern Spiritualism; 12: Spiritism in Brazil: From Religious to Therapeutic Practice; 13: Between Two Worlds: Transformations of Spiritualism in Contemporary Lily Dale; PART 4: Channeling.
- 14: "The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present" : Channeling, Television, and the New Age15: Channeling-The Cinderella of the New Age?: A Course in Miracles, the Seth Texts, and Definition in New Age Spiritualities; 16: Individual Power, Cultural Constraints: Israeli Channeling in Global Context; 17: Channeling Extraterrestrials: Theosophical Discourse in the Space Age; PART 5: The Next Move; 18: Secret Lives of the Superpowers: The Remote Viewing Literature and the Imaginal; 19: Psychics, Skeptics, and Popular Culture.
- 20: The Occultists and the Spaceman: The Metamorphosis of Dorothy Martin21: Historical Imagination and Channeled Theology: Or, Learning the Law of Attraction; Index.
