Modern Spiritualism

Author : Todd Jay Leonard
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mediums
ISBN : 9780595363537

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Talking to the Other Side by Todd Jay Leonard Pdf

Since its birth in 1848, Spiritualism as a religion, science, and philosophy has experienced great highs and lows. At the center of this purely American-made modern-religious movement are "mediums"--the people who are able to communicate, in some way, with spirit entities that are no longer on the earth plane. Based on three years of on-site investigation, and a plethora of data and research collected on the modern Spiritualist movement in America, Talking to the Other Side focuses upon the ethno-religious aspects of the religion, mediumship, and the mediums themselves. The first four chapters offer an expansive review of the history of religion in America, mediumship, and the Spiritualist movement. Chapters 5-7 comprise the research and data that were compiled and analyzed based on fieldwork analysis, a comprehensive questionnaire, personal interviews, and published literature on the topic of Spiritualism and mediumship. According to Spiritualist mediums, "people don't die, bodies do." Talking to the Other Side offers a contemporary look into the lives and backgrounds of the mediums who bridge this world and the Spirit world, connecting those who have passed over with those they left behind.

Author : Uriah Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : UIUC:30112064575910

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Modern Spiritualism by Uriah Smith Pdf

Spiritualism is constantly increasing all over the world. We can already see a great many evil effects from this deceitful agency. This book shows the origin, claims, and tendency of Modern Spiritualism. Chapter VI shows how disastrously it has failed to fulfill its promises and pretensions. Chapter VII presents the prophecies which have foretold the rise and progress of this deceptionin the last days, and how it is a most startling sign our times and of the nearness of the end. - 1. Opening Thought ... 2. What Is the Agency in Question? ... 3. The Dead Unconscious. 4. They Are Evil Angels ... 5. What the Spirits Teach ... 6. Its Promies: How Fulfilled. 7. Spiritualism a Subject Of Prophecy-Conclusion

Author : Rev, Ronald Koch
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365999468

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Introduction to Modern Spiritualism by Rev, Ronald Koch Pdf

Author : Simone Natale
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271077390

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Supernatural Entertainments by Simone Natale Pdf

In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.

Author : Anne Kalvig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317017592

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The Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism by Anne Kalvig Pdf

Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world. However, practices of spiritualism and mediumship continue to remain popular and in high demand within contemporary Western societies. This book analyses the practices of today’s mediums, who insist on standing at the threshold between life and death, interpreting signs and passing on communications, and asks how such concepts and practices are perceived by contemporary society. Using first-hand material gathered from alternative fairs, mediumistic congresses, séances, and interviews with both practitioners and clients, as well as thorough textual analysis, Anne Kalvig provides a clear overview of the various forms of consumption of mediumship in Western society and places these within a socio-cultural, religious and historical context. She also raises questions as to the controversies surrounding spiritualism and its representation and relationship with popular culture and the media. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of sociology, religious studies, folklore, media studies and anthropology as well as to anyone interested in the upsurge of contemporary spiritualism, psychic phenomena and the paranormal.

Author : Georgina Byrne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835899

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Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850-1939 by Georgina Byrne Pdf

Shows how some of the ideas about the afterlife presented by spiritualism helped to shape popular Christianity in the period.

Author : Michelle Foot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350405820

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Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art by Michelle Foot Pdf

This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement's cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to mainstream artists of the Royal Scottish Academy, this exposition reveals for the first time the extent of Spiritualist interest in Scotland. With its interdisciplinary scope, Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art combines cultural and art history to explore the ways in which Scottish art reflected Spiritualist beliefs at the turn of the 20th century. More than simply a history of the Spiritualist cause and its visual manifestations, this book also provides a detailed account of scepticism, psychical research, and occulture in modern Scotland, and the role that these aspects played in informing responses to Spiritualist ideology. Utilising extensive archival research, together with in-depth analyses of overlooked paintings, drawings and sculpture, Michelle Foot demonstrates the vital importance of Spiritualist art to the development of Spiritualism in Scotland during the 19th century. In doing so, the book highlights the contribution of Scottish visual artists alongside better-known Spiritualists such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Daniel Dunglas Home.

Author : J. Stanley Grimes,Leo Miller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375103538

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Great Discussion of Modern Spiritualism by J. Stanley Grimes,Leo Miller Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Author : ALFRED R. WALLACE
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789361153433

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A Defence Of Modern Spiritualism by ALFRED R. WALLACE Pdf

In "A Defence of Modern Spiritualism," Alfred Russel Wallace, the outstanding biologist and co-founder of the idea of evolution, departs from his scientific foundations to address the increasing spiritualist motion of the 19th century. Wallace, mentioned for his highbrow interest and open-mindedness, makes a sturdy case in desire of spiritualism, a religion machine primarily based on connection with spirits. Wallace's book makes use of his private stories, studies, and testimonials to argue for the truth of spiritualist practices. Wallace, who's normally linked with clinical rigor, uses his analytical thoughts to investigate and guard spiritual reviews, difficult skeptics and striving to reconcile spiritualist ideas with contemporary scientific and theological perspectives. "A Defence of Modern Spiritualism" exemplifies Wallace's diversity as a thinker, demonstrating his willingness to have a look at unusual areas of information. While it may appear to be a departure from Wallace's evolutionary pursuits, the book shows his willpower to intellectual studies and his desire to recognize the various elements of the human revel in.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Occultism
ISBN : HARVARD:HNXB94

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A Defence of Modern Spiritualism by Alfred Russel Wallace Pdf

Author : Ann Leah Underhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : UCAL:B3527550

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The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism by Ann Leah Underhill Pdf

Author : Francis Ward MONCK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025710261

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The Truthseeker's Guide to the Investigation of Modern Spiritualism. Edited by F. W. M. by Francis Ward MONCK Pdf

Author : Thomas Bartlett Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Bible and spiritualism
ISBN : HARVARD:HWQRSR

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Three Articles on Modern Spiritualism by Thomas Bartlett Hall Pdf

Author : Efram Sera-Shriar
Publisher : Sci & Culture in the Nineteent
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0822947072

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Psychic Investigators by Efram Sera-Shriar Pdf

Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd. The book draws on major themes, such as the historical relationship between science and religion, the history of scientific observation, and the emergence of the subfield of anthropology of religion in the second half of the nineteenth century. For secularists such as Tylor and Clodd, spiritualism posed a major obstacle in establishing the legitimacy of the theory of animism: a core theoretical principle of anthropology founded in the belief of "primitive cultures" that spirits animated the world, and that this belief represented the foundation of all religious paradigms. What becomes clear through this nuanced examination of Victorian anthropology is that arguments involving spirits or psychic forces usually revolved around issues of evidence, or lack of it, rather than faith or beliefs or disbeliefs.

Author : Joseph Harvey Waggoner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Psychology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014409643

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The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism by Joseph Harvey Waggoner Pdf