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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Main Author: Lachapelle, Sofie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
Series:Project Muse philosophy and religion collection.
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