The Occult in America : new historical perspectives / edited by Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1983.Description: 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0252009835
  • 9780252009839
Local Notes: Gift of Charles E. Rosenberg.Subject(s):
Contents:
Explaining modern occultism / Robert Galbreath -- Andover witchcraft and the causes of the Salem witchcraft trials / Chadwick Hansen -- The dark ages of American occultism, 1760-1848 / Jon Butler -- The Fox sisters and American spiritualism / Ernest Isaacs -- The American theosophical synthesis / Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. -- The occult connection?: Mormonism, Christian Science, and spiritualism / R. Laurence Moore -- Vivekananda and American occultism / Steven F. Walker -- Women in occult America / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Paranormal memorates in the American vernacular / Larry Danielson -- UFOs and the search for scientific legitimacy / David M. Jacobs.
List(s) this item appears in: Spiritualism / Occult Reference
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Book Library Company of Philadelphia Ie A4856.O Available 275754
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Explaining modern occultism / Robert Galbreath -- Andover witchcraft and the causes of the Salem witchcraft trials / Chadwick Hansen -- The dark ages of American occultism, 1760-1848 / Jon Butler -- The Fox sisters and American spiritualism / Ernest Isaacs -- The American theosophical synthesis / Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. -- The occult connection?: Mormonism, Christian Science, and spiritualism / R. Laurence Moore -- Vivekananda and American occultism / Steven F. Walker -- Women in occult America / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Paranormal memorates in the American vernacular / Larry Danielson -- UFOs and the search for scientific legitimacy / David M. Jacobs.

Gift of Charles E. Rosenberg.

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