Handbook of spiritualism and channeling / / edited by Cathy Gutierrez.

• Superior document: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Gutierrez, Cathy, 1967-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (519 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

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, articles explore the nineteenth-century beginnings of séances and trance mediumship. Channelling, an heir to Spiritualism begun in the 1970s and still flourishing today, is brought into direct conversation with its predecessors with a view to showing both continuity and disjuncture as the products of new cultural and religious needs. The Brill Handbook marks the first extensive collection on these two interrelated movements and examines themes such as gender, race, performance, and technology in each instance.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Cathy Gutierrez -- Introduction / Cathy Gutierrez -- Mesmerism and the Psychological Dimension of Mediumship / Adam Crabtree -- Spiritualism and the American Swedenborgian Current / Arthur Versluis -- Dead Reckonings: Spirits and Corpses at the Crossroads / Cathy Gutierrez -- Spirit Possession / Mary Keller -- Queering the Séance: Bodies, Bondage, and Touching in Victorian Spiritualism / Marlene Tromp -- 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 / John Patrick Deveney -- Pinkie at Play: Postcolonialism, Politics, and Performance in Nettie Colburn Maynard’s Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? / Elizabeth Lowry -- Criticising the Dead: Spiritualism and the Oneida Community / Christa Shusko -- The Nature of Reality: Christian Science and Spiritualism / Jeremy Rapport -- Reincarnation: The Path to Progress / Lynn L. Sharp -- Crossing Over: Allan Kardec and the Transnationalisation of Modern Spiritualism / John Warne Monroe -- Spiritism in Brazil: From Religious to Therapeutic Practice / Waleska de Araújo Aureliano and Vânia Zikán Cardoso -- Between Two Worlds: Transformations of Spiritualism in Contemporary Lily Dale / Darryl V. Caterine -- “The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present”: Channeling, Television, and the New Age / Hugh Urban -- Channeling—The Cinderella of the New Age?: A Course in Miracles, the Seth Texts, and Definition in New Age Spiritualities / Ruth Bradby -- Individual Power, Cultural Constraints: Israeli Channeling in Global Context / Adam Klin-Oron -- Channeling Extraterrestrials: Theosophical Discourse in the Space Age / Christopher Partridge -- Secret Lives of the Superpowers: The Remote Viewing Literature and the Imaginal / Jeffrey Kripal -- Psychics, Skeptics, and Popular Culture / Douglas E. Cowan -- The Occultists and the Spaceman: The Metamorphosis of Dorothy Martin / Michael Barkun -- Historical Imagination and Channeled Theology: Or, Learning the Law of Attraction / Catherine L. Albanese -- Index / Cathy Gutierrez.