Investigating the supernatural : from spiritism and occultism to psychical research and metapsychics in France, 1853-1931 / Sofie Lachapelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lachapelle, Sofie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism--France--History--19th century.

Occultism.

Occultism--France--History--20th century.

Supernatural--France--History--19th century.

Supernatural.

Supernatural--France--History--20th century.

Parapsychology--France--History--19th century.

Parapsychology.

Parapsychology--France--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An enlightening and entertaining narrative that includes colorful people like "Allan Kardec"--a pseudonymous former mathematics teacher from Lyon who wrote successful works on the science of the séance and what happened after death--Investigating the Supernatural reveals the rich and vibrant diversity of unorthodox beliefs and practices that existed at the borders of the French scientific culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Contents:

From turning tables to spiritism

Occult wisdoms, astral bodies, and human fluids

Pathologies of the supernatural

Witnessing and testifying to psychical phenomena

The rise and fall of metapsychics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-186) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4214-0117-7

OCLC:

794700369