Laboratories of Faith : : Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France / / John Warne Monroe.
At a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rejection of scientific thought; participants in séances and magic rituals were seekers after experimental data as well as spiritual truth. A young astronomy student wrote of his quest: &quo...
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Monroe, John Warne, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Laboratories of Faith : Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France / John Warne Monroe. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2011 1 online resource (312 p.) : 17 halftones, 1 chart/graph text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interpreting the Tables Tournantes, 1853-1856 -- 2. Mesmerism and the Challenge of Spiritualism, 1853-1859 -- 3. The Invention and Development of Spiritism, 1857-1869 -- 4. Spiritism on Trial, 187o-188o -- 5. Confronting the Multivalent Self, 1880-1914 -- Epilogue: The Emergence of a New Heterodoxy -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star At a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rejection of scientific thought; participants in séances and magic rituals were seekers after experimental data as well as spiritual truth. A young astronomy student wrote of his quest: "I am not in the presence or under the influence of any evil spirit: I study Spiritism as I study mathematics." He did not see himself as an ecstatic visionary but rather as a sober observer. For him, the darkened room of occult practice was as much laboratory as church.In an evocative history of alternative religious practices in France in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, John Warne Monroe tells the interconnected stories of three movements-Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism. Adherents of these groups, Monroe reveals, attempted to "modernize" faith by providing empirical support for metaphysical concepts. Instead of trusting theological speculation about the nature of the soul, these believers attempted to gather tangible evidence through Mesmeric experiments, séances, and ceremonial magic. While few French people were active Mesmerists, Spiritists, or Occultists, large segments of the educated general public were familiar with these movements and often regarded them as fascinating expressions of the "modern condition," a notable contrast to the Catholicism and secular materialism that prevailed in their culture.Featuring eerie spirit photographs, amusing Daumier lithographs, and a posthumous autograph from Voltaire, as well as extensive documentary evidence, Laboratories of Faith gives readers a sense of what being in a séance or a secret-society ritual might actually have felt like and why these feelings attracted participants. While they never achieved the transformation of human consciousness for which they strove, these thinkers and believers nevertheless pioneered a way of "being religious" that has become an enduring part of the Western cultural vocabulary. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Mesmerism France History. Occultism France History. Spiritualism France History. Europe. History. HISTORY / Europe / France. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801445620 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801461712 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801461712 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801461712/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interpreting the Tables Tournantes, 1853-1856 -- 2. Mesmerism and the Challenge of Spiritualism, 1853-1859 -- 3. The Invention and Development of Spiritism, 1857-1869 -- 4. Spiritism on Trial, 187o-188o -- 5. Confronting the Multivalent Self, 1880-1914 -- Epilogue: The Emergence of a New Heterodoxy -- Bibliography -- Index |
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