Spiritualism

Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

by Barbara Weisberg

Is it really possible to talk with the dead? As much as modern America is familiar with mediums - think bestselling authors John Edwards and Sylvia Browne - this question still generates passionate opinions from believers and skeptics alike...

Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Second Edition

by Ann Braude

"... Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women?s creativity-spiritual as well as political-in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement." ?Jon Butler"Radical Spirits is a vitally important book.....

Modern Spiritualism

by Uriah Smith

As we draw closer to the secong coming of Christ, the line between good and evil becomes blurred as evil masquerades as good, disguised in popular entertainment, communication and innocent pleasures...

The History Of Spiritualism

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Upanishads (Classic of Indian Spirituality)

Formerly a professor of Victorian literature, Eknath Easwaran discovered the treasures of wisdom in his own native India and began to pursue them with a passion...

The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

by Alex Owen

A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums?it's an exploration of the era's gender relations.The hugely popular spiritualist movement, which maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead, offered female mediums a new independence, authority, and potential to undermine conventional class and gender relations in the home and in society.Using previously unexamined sources and an innovative approach, Alex Owen invokes the Victorian world of darkened séance rooms, theatrical apparitions, and moving episodes of happiness lost and regained...

Spiritualism in Antebellum America (Religion in North America)

by Bret E. Carroll

"At a time when the New Age movement is starting to make good on the Spiritualists' vision of America as a 'grand clairvoyant nation', Carroll's work raises provocative questions about the tension betwen freedom and authority in the harmonial religions of today." ?Church History".....

Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism

by Robert S. Cox

A product of the "spiritual hothouse" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity...

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

by Dr. Molly McGarry

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...

A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem: The Rise of Witch City

by Maggi Smith-Dalton

Salem, Massachusetts, is the quintessential New England town, with its cobbled streets and strong ties to the sea. With the notoriety of the Salem witch trials, the city's reputation has been irrevocably linked to the occult...