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A Luminous Brotherhood Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans / Emily Suzanne Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Emily Suzanne, 1984-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race--Religious aspects.
- Race.
- African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- African American Spiritual churches--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- African American Spiritual churches.
- New Orleans (La.)--Religious life and customs.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Church history--19th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history.
- Contents:
- Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans
- The creation of the Cercle Harmonique
- The disharmony of New Orleans city life
- Spiritualism and Catholicism
- The spiritual republic and America's destiny
- The spiritual republic in the Atlantic Age of revolutions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908522-0-5
- 1-4696-2880-5
- OCLC:
- 957557707
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