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Let the Dead Speak
- Spiritualism in Australia
Engelsk Hardback
Let the Dead Speak
- Spiritualism in Australia
Engelsk Hardback

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This book explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism - a religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography. It continues to be practised actively today in Australia, the UK, and USA. The authors draw on their deep fieldwork, interviews, and archival research to analyse Spiritualism’s resilience and the enduring popular appeal of mediumship.

There are three key contributions of the book: the first is that the scholarly study of “belief” should be rehabilitated. The authors propose a model of belief as a dialogue between claims to truth and commitments to institutions supporting those claims. The second is women’s agency in Spiritualism. From the movement’s beginnings, strong female leaders have decisively shaped its religious and political profile. The third is the need to analyse Australian Spiritualism as a distinct variant of a transnational Anglophone family of ritual practice.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781526181022
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1526181029
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
14 jan 2025
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
241mm
Forlag:
Manchester University Press
Oplagsdato:
14 jan 2025
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