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Ghosts of Futures Past
Dr. Molly McGarry
其他書名
Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America
出版
University of California Press
, 2008-05-26
主題
History / United States / General
ISBN
0520934067
9780520934061
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QcfXmglAukgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 provided an alchemical combination of science and magic that called into question the very categories of male and female, material and immaterial, self and other, living and dead. Dissolving the boundaries between them opened Spiritualist practitioners to other voices and, in turn, allowed them to imagine new social worlds and forge diverse political affinities.