Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America

by Molly McGarry

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Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence of magic in an emergent culture of secularism, Molly McGarry brings a once marginalized practice to the center of American cultural history. Spiritualism...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520274539

ISBN13:9780520274532

Release Date:September 2012

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Religion Religion & Spirituality Spirituality

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