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

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,...

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Superior document:Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume 9
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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.
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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.