Other World - Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914

Zusammenfassung The Other World examines the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It attempts to understand the reasons why artisans! intellectuals! and aristocrats alike embraced spiritualism as a surrogate religion or endorsed psychical research as the science of the future. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Setting: 1. Mediums; 2. Membership; Part II. A Surrogate Faith: 3. Spiritualism and Christianity; 4. Psychical research and agnosticism; 5. Theosophy and the occult; Part III. A Pseudoscience: 6. Concepts of mind; 7. The problem of evolution; 8. Physics and psychic phenomena; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Janet Oppenheim
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 26.02.1988
• EAN: 9780521347679
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34767-9
• Pages: 532
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général