1989, ISBN: 0807075019

[EAN: 9780807075012], [PU: Beacon Press, 1989., Boston:], SPIRITUALISM, 8vo. xiii, [1], 268 pp. Plates, index. Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0807075019 "As she tells the story of the… Meer...

[EAN: 9780807075012], [PU: Beacon Press, 1989., Boston:], SPIRITUALISM, 8vo. xiii, [1], 268 pp. Plates, index. Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0807075019 "As she tells the story of the development of Spiritualism, Braude uses the emergence of the medium to comment on the shifting understanding of the proper roles of women and men. In contrast with a minister or theologian, Spiritualism began to teach that the spirits chose mediums, which gave them unassailable authority. At a time when no religious groups ordained women and when women could neither vote nor hold office, the movement for women's rights also began to suggest that women had autonomy from beyond the world of men, society, and the church. Instead of commenting on the truth of Spiritualism's claims, Ann Braude speaks instead throughout her book of the way it fed a growing hunger in the mid-19th century: to communicate with the dead. She argues that this desire went beyond grief at the death of a loved one. Adherents of Spiritualism were also seeking evidence of the immortality of the soul from a religious source which deviated from Calvinism. Hearing a message from "beyond" offered them release from some of the stricter aspects of Calvinism, such as predestination, final judgment, infant damnation, and hell. What sets this book apart from other studies of the same time period is Ann Braude's contention that faith is an important element for interpreting history." â€" John Hopkins University., Books<

1989, ISBN: 9780807075012

Boston:: Beacon Press, 1989., 1989. 8vo. xiii, [1], 268 pp. Plates, index. Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0807075019 "As she tells the story of the development of Spiritualism, Brau… Meer...

Boston:: Beacon Press, 1989., 1989. 8vo. xiii, [1], 268 pp. Plates, index. Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0807075019 "As she tells the story of the development of Spiritualism, Braude uses the emergence of the medium to comment on the shifting understanding of the proper roles of women and men. In contrast with a minister or theologian, Spiritualism began to teach that the spirits chose mediums, which gave them unassailable authority. At a time when no religious groups ordained women and when women could neither vote nor hold office, the movement for women's rights also began to suggest that women had autonomy from beyond the world of men, society, and the church. Instead of commenting on the truth of Spiritualism's claims, Ann Braude speaks instead throughout her book of the way it fed a growing hunger in the mid-19th century: to communicate with the dead. She argues that this desire went beyond grief at the death of a loved one. Adherents of Spiritualism were also seeking evidence of the immortality of the soul from a religious source which deviated from Calvinism. Hearing a message from "beyond" offered them release from some of the stricter aspects of Calvinism, such as predestination, final judgment, infant damnation, and hell. What sets this book apart from other studies of the same time period is Ann Braude's contention that faith is an important element for interpreting history." John Hopkins University., Beacon Press, 1989., 1989<

ISBN: 9780807075012

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