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Author | : Claudie Massicotte |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2017-05-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0773549935 |
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Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual séances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity. Retracing the history of possession and mediumship among women following the emergence of spiritualism in mid-nineteenth-century Canada – and unearthing a vast collection of archival documents and photographs from séances – Claudie Massicotte pinpoints spiritualism as a site of conflict and gender struggle and redefines modern understandings of female agency. Trance Speakers offers a new feminist and psychoanalytical approach to the religious and creative practice of trance, arguing that by providing women with a voice for their conscious and unconscious desires, this phenomenon helped them resolve their inner struggles in a society that sought to confine their lives. Drawing attention to the fascinating history of spiritualism and its persistent appeal to women, Massicotte makes a strong case for moving this practice out of the margins of the past. A compelling new reading of spiritual possession as a response to conflicting interpretations of authorship, agency, and gender, Trance Speakers shines a much-needed light on women’s religious practices and on the history of spiritualist traditions and travels across North America and Europe.
Author | : Ann Braude |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2020-05-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253056322 |
Download Radical Spirits Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Braude has discovered a crucial link between the early feminists and the spiritualists who so captured the American imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women’s rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women’s history. In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of women’s history in general and the women’s rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students. “It would be hard to imagine a book that more insightfully combined gender, social, and religious history together more perfectly than Radical Spirits. Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women’s creativity—spiritual as well as political—in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement.” —Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University “Continually rewarding.” —The New York Times Book Review “A fascinating, well-researched, and scholarly work on a peripheral aspect of the rise of the American feminist movement.” —Library Journal “A vitally important book . . . [that] has . . . influenced a generation of young scholars.” —Marie Griffith, associate director of the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University “An insightful book and a delightful read.” —Journal of American History
Author | : Catherine Wessinger |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252020254 |
Download Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women's leadership in Spiritualism and Christian Science / Ann Braude -- The feminism of "Universal Brotherhood," women in the Theosophical Movement / Robert Ellwood and Catherine Wessinger -- Emma Curtis Hopkins, a feminist of the 1880's and mother of new thought / J. Gordon Melton -- Myrtle Fillmore and her daughters, an observation and analysis of the role of women in Unity / Dell deChant -- Woman guru, woman roshi, the legitimation of female religious leadership in Hindu and Buddhist groups in America / Catherine Wessinger. -- Part 3. Contemporary women as creators of religion: Ritual validations of clergywomen's authority in the African American Spiritual churches of New Orleans / David C. Estes --. - Twentieth-century women's religion as seen in the feminist spirit.
Author | : Uriah Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Spiritualism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Uriah CLARK |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Plain Guide to Spiritualism. A Hand-book for Skeptics, Inquirers ... and All who Need a Thorough Guide to the Phenomena ... of Modern Spiritualism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Rev, Ronald Koch |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1365999467 |
Download Introduction to Modern Spiritualism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Whitley Strieber |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0143109502 |
Download The Super Natural Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real, but radically different from what is conventionally understood. Whitley Strieber (Communion) and Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton Rayzor professor of religion at Rice University) team up on this unprecedented and intellectually vibrant new framing of inexplicable events and experiences. Rather than merely document the anomalous, these authors--one the man who popularized alien abduction and the other a renowned scholar and "renegade advocate for including the paranormal in religious studies" (The New York Times)--deliver a fast-paced and exhilarating study of why the supernatural is neither fantasy nor fiction but a vital and authentic aspect of life. Their suggestion? That all kinds of "impossible" things, from extra-dimensional beings to bilocation to bumps in the night, are not impossible at all: rather, they are a part of our natural world. But this natural world is immeasurably more weird, more wonderful, and probably more populated than we have so far imagined with our current categories and cultures, which are what really make these things seem "impossible." The Super Natural considers that the natural world is actually a "super natural world"--and all we have to do to see this is to change the lenses through which we are looking at it and the languages through which we are presently limiting it. In short: The extraordinary exists if we know how to look at and think about it.
Author | : Emma Hardinge Britten |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Spiritualism |
ISBN | : |
Download Modern American Spiritualism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Modern American Spiritualism: Twenty Years' Record of the Communion Between Earth and the World of Spirits by Emma Hardinge Britten, first published in 1870, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author | : afterwards BRITTEN HARDINGE (Emma) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1870 |
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ISBN | : |
Download Modern American Spiritualism: a twenty years' record of the communion between Earth and the World of Spirits. ... Third edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Joel Martin |
Publisher | : Forge Books |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1429940948 |
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In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America: From The Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini, the only book to tell the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events. In a narrative retelling of American history that begins with the Salem Witch Trials of the seventeenth century, Martin and Birnes unearth the roots of America's fascination with the ghosts, goblins, and demons that possess our imaginations and nightmares. The authors examine the political history of the United States through the lens of the paranormal and investigate the spiritual events that inspired public policy: channelers and meduims who have advised presidents, UFOs that frightened the nation's military into launching nuclear bomber squadrons toward the Soviet Union, out-of-body experiencers deployed to gather sensitive intelligence on other countries, and even spirits summoned to communicate with living politicians. The Haunting of America is a thrilling exploration of the often unexpected influences of the paranormal on science, medicine, law, government, the military, psychology, theology, death and dying, spirituality, and pop culture. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.