Bret E. Carroll

Spiritualism in Antebellum America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes the attempt by spiritually restless Americans of the 1840s and 1850s to negotiate a satisfying combination of freedom and authority as they sought a sense of harmony with the universe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780253333155
• ISBN-10: 0253333156
• Artikelnr.: 21641704

Autorenporträt

Bret E. Carroll is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
1. Introduction: Spiritualist Religion and the Search for Order
2. American Spiritualism and the Swedenborgian Order
3. Spiritualist Republicanism
4. The Structure of the Spirit World
5. The Ministry of Spirits
6. The Structure of Spiritualist Practice
7. The Structure of Spiritualist Society
Conclusion
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index