Plato's ghost : spiritualism in the American Renaissance / Cathy Gutierrez.

In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to seance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed as the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a feminist movement. Here, Gutierrez places spiritualism in the context of the 19th-century American Renaissanc...

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Main Author: Gutierrez, Cathy, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Series:Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
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