Investigating the Supernatural - From Spiritism Occultism to Psychical Research Metapsychics in

Informationen zum Autor Sofie Lachapelle is an associate professor of history at the University of Guelph. Klappentext An enlightening and entertaining narrative that includes colorful people like "Allan Kardec"--a pseudonymous former mathematics teacher from Lyon who wrote successful works on the science of the séance and what happened after death--Investigating the Supernatural reveals the rich and vibrant diversity of unorthodox beliefs and practices that existed at the borders of the French scientific culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France! a number of groups turned to the wondrous and occult as a means of understanding and explaining the world. This title examines these varied efforts through the phenomena witnessed at seances.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sofie Lachapelle, Sofie (Department Chair Lachapelle
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 27.07.2011
• EAN: 9781421400136
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0013-6
• Seiten: 208
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Ratgeber > Spiritualität > Altes Wissen, Alte Kulturen; European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / France, MEDICAL / History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Occultism, History of Medicine, History of Science, Occult Studies