Cox Robert S. Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism 9780813940724

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Автор: Cox Robert S.
Название: Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism
ISBN: 9780813940724
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Социальная история и история культуры

Спиритуализм

Чакры, ауры и духовная энергия

ISBN-10: 0813940729
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 296
Вес: 0.44 кг.
Дата издания: 30.10.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 13 black & white illustrations
Размер: 229 x 152 x 17
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Social & cultural history,Spirituality & religious experience,Spiritualism, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A product of the spiritual hothouse of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity. In Body and Soul, Robert Cox shows how Spiritualism sought to transform sympathy into social practice, arguing that each individual, living and dead, was poised within a nexus of affect, and through the active propagation of these sympathetic bonds, a new and coherent society would emerge. Phenomena such as spontaneous somnambulism and sympathetic communion with the dead—whether through séance or spirit photography—were ways of transcending the barriers dissecting the American body politic, including the ultimate barrier, death. Drawing equally upon social, occult, and physiological registers, Spiritualism created a unique social physiology in which mind was integrated into body and body into society, leading Spiritualists into earthly social reforms, such as women’s rights and anti-slavery.From the beginning, however, Spiritualist political and social expression was far more diverse than has previously been recognized, encompassing distinctive proslavery and antiegalitarian strains, and in the wake of racial and political adjustments following the Civil War, the movement began to fracture. Cox traces the eventual dissolution of Spiritualism through the contradictions of its various regional and racial factions and through their increasingly circumscribed responses to a changing world. In the end, he concludes, the history of Spiritualism was written in the limits of sympathy, and not its limitless potential.A product of the spiritual hothouse of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity. In Body and Soul, Robert Cox shows how Spiritualism sought to transform sympathy into social practice, arguing that each individual, living and dead, was poised within a nexus of affect, and through the active propagation of these sympathetic bonds, a new and coherent society would emerge. Phenomena such as spontaneous somnambulism and sympathetic communion with the dead—whether through séance or spirit photography—were ways of transcending the barriers dissecting the American body politic, including the ultimate barrier, death. Drawing equally upon social, occult, and physiological registers, Spiritualism created a unique social physiology in which mind was integrated into body and body into society, leading Spiritualists into earthly social reforms, such as women’s rights and anti-slavery.From the beginning, however, Spiritualist political and social expression was far more diverse than has previously been recognized, encompassing distinctive proslavery and antiegalitarian strains, and in the wake of racial and political adjustments following the Civil War, the movement began to fracture. Cox traces the eventual dissolution of Spiritualism through the contradictions of its various regional and racial factions and through their increasingly circumscribed responses to a changing world. In the end, he concludes, the history of Spiritualism was written in the limits of sympathy, and not its limitless potential.
Дополнительное описание: Spirituality and religious experience|Spiritualism|Social and cultural history|History of the Americas

Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism, Cox Robert S.