Spiritualism : its history, phenomena and doctrine / by J. Arthur Hill ; with an introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1872-1951, author.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, author of introduction.

Contributor:

George H. Doran Company, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritualism.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : George H. Doran Company, 1919.

Contents:

Part I. Antecedents of modern spiritualism ; Swedenborg ; Confluence of Swedenborgianism and mesmerism in America ; The Hydesville Knockings ; Early days in England ; William Stainton Moses ; The Society for Psychical Research ; Physical phenomena ; Confirmatory phenomena in India ; Ghosts ; On evidence, proof and belief

Part II. Spiritualism as a religion ; Spiritualism as a religion (continued) ; Materialistic and other objections ; Roman Catholic and mystical objections ; Some Protestant objections ; Fechner's theory of life after death ; Spiritualistic conceptions of after-death conditions ; Conclusion.

Notes:

Copyright 1919, by George H. Doran Company.--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Other Format:

Online version: Hill, John Arthur, 1872- Spiritualism, its history phenomena and doctrine.

OCLC:

14804999