The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914Cambridge University Press, 1985 - 503 pages An examination of the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The book explores the variety of social background, education, and professional expertise that characterized the men and women who attended seances and investigated psychic phenomena, and places them in the context of their times without ridiculing their beliefs. |
Contents
Mediums | 7 |
Daniel Dunglas Home | 10 |
Fullform materialization | 16 |
Spiritwriters and magicians | 21 |
Membership | 28 |
The industrious working class | 39 |
The spiritualist press | 44 |
Organizations and societies | 49 |
Theosophical science | 193 |
A pseudoscience | 199 |
Concepts of mind | 205 |
Phrenology and mesmerism | 207 |
Partners in unorthodoxy | 217 |
Psychology and Physical research | 236 |
The work of Gurney and Myers | 249 |
The problem of evolution | 267 |
A surrogate faith | 59 |
Spiritualism and Christianity | 63 |
Christian spiritualism | 67 |
AntiChristian spiritualism | 85 |
A common ground | 103 |
Psychical research and agnosticism | 111 |
Forerunners of the SPR | 123 |
Early tensions within the SPR | 135 |
Inconclusive inquiries | 141 |
The preamble of all religions | 152 |
Theosophy and the occult | 159 |
Affinities with spiritualism | 162 |
HP Blavatsky and the SPR | 174 |
Prominent British Theosophists | 178 |
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The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 Janet Oppenheim No preview available - 1985 |
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