Handbook of spiritualism and channeling / edited by Cathy Gutierrez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutierrez, Cathy, 1967- editor.

Series:

Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; Volume 9.

Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, 1874-6691 ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritualism.

Channeling (Spiritualism).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and geographies, the Brill Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling presents modern spirit possession in a variety of contexts. Weaving together the interrelated movements of Spiritualism along with its specific Franco and Latin American currents, articles explore the nineteenth-century beginnings of séances and trance mediumship. Channelling, an heir to Spiritualism begun in the 1970s and still flourishing today, is brought into direct conversation with its predecessors with a view to showing both continuity and disjuncture as the products of new cultural and religious needs. The Brill Handbook marks the first extensive collection on these two interrelated movements and examines themes such as gender, race, performance, and technology in each instance.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Cathy Gutierrez

Introduction / Cathy Gutierrez

Mesmerism and the Psychological Dimension of Mediumship / Adam Crabtree

Spiritualism and the American Swedenborgian Current / Arthur Versluis

Dead Reckonings: Spirits and Corpses at the Crossroads / Cathy Gutierrez

Spirit Possession / Mary Keller

Queering the Séance: Bodies, Bondage, and Touching in Victorian Spiritualism / Marlene Tromp

Man is a Spirit Here and Now: The Two Faces of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Creation of the Magical Occult Theosophical Spiritualist New Thought Amalgam / John Patrick Deveney

Pinkie at Play: Postcolonialism, Politics, and Performance in Nettie Colburn Maynard’s Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? / Elizabeth Lowry

Criticising the Dead: Spiritualism and the Oneida Community / Christa Shusko

The Nature of Reality: Christian Science and Spiritualism / Jeremy Rapport

Reincarnation: The Path to Progress / Lynn L. Sharp

Crossing Over: Allan Kardec and the Transnationalisation of Modern Spiritualism / John Warne Monroe

Spiritism in Brazil: From Religious to Therapeutic Practice / Waleska de Araújo Aureliano and Vânia Zikán Cardoso

Between Two Worlds: Transformations of Spiritualism in Contemporary Lily Dale / Darryl V. Caterine

“The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present”: Channeling, Television, and the New Age / Hugh Urban

Channeling—The Cinderella of the New Age?: A Course in Miracles, the Seth Texts, and Definition in New Age Spiritualities / Ruth Bradby

Individual Power, Cultural Constraints: Israeli Channeling in Global Context / Adam Klin-Oron

Channeling Extraterrestrials: Theosophical Discourse in the Space Age / Christopher Partridge

Secret Lives of the Superpowers: The Remote Viewing Literature and the Imaginal / Jeffrey Kripal

Psychics, Skeptics, and Popular Culture / Douglas E. Cowan

The Occultists and the Spaceman: The Metamorphosis of Dorothy Martin / Michael Barkun

Historical Imagination and Channeled Theology: Or, Learning the Law of Attraction / Catherine L. Albanese

Index / Cathy Gutierrez.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26408-6

OCLC:

896359623

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004264083 DOI