Investigating the supernatural : from spiritism and occultism to psychical research and metapsychics in France, 1853-1931 /
Seances were wildly popular in France between 1850 and 1930, when members of the general public and scholars alike turned to the wondrous as a means of understanding and explaining the world. Sofie Lachapelle explores how five distinct groups attempted to use and legitimize seances: spiritists, who...
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Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011
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Series: | Project Muse philosophy and religion collection.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |