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Occult America : the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation / Mitch Horowitz.
Van Pelt Library BF1434.U6 H67 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horowitz, Mitch.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occultism--United States--History.
- Occultism.
- Parapsychology--United States--History.
- Parapsychology.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, [2009]
- Summary:
- From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board,"Occult America" briskly sweeps from the nation's earliest days of mystical and esoteric movements to the birth of the New Age era, tracing the many people and episodes that continue to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What is the occult? (and what is it doing in America?)
- The psychic highway
- Mystic Americans
- Don't try this at home : Ouija and the selling of spiritualism
- The science of right thinking
- The mail-order prophet
- Go tell pharaoh : the rise of magic in Afro-America
- The return of the "secret teachings"
- New deal of the ages : politics and the occult
- The masters among us
- Secrets for sale
- "The greatest mystic who ever lived in America"
- Epilogue: Aquarius rising : the new age dawns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780553806755
- 0553806750
- OCLC:
- 299706517
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