Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia / / Julia Mannherz.
Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia traces the history of occult thought and practice from its origins in private salons to its popularity in turn-of-the-century mass culture. In lucid prose, Julia Mannherz examines the ferocious public debates of the 1870s on higher dimensional mathematics and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (316 p.) :; 15 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1-The Laboratory in the Salon Spiritualism Comes to Russia
- 2-0ccult Science and the Russian Public
- 3-The Occult Metropolis Putting the Hidden to Practical Use
- 4-Servants, Priests, and Haunted Houses
- 5-Popular Occultism and the Orthodox Church
- 6-The Occult at Court Mariia Puare and the Fate of Occultism during the Great War
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index