Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America

Each topic has long been assumed to say something important about the other, and the result of so many writers focusing so intently for so long has been an increasingly rich bird's eye view, not only of a distinctive American religious practice but also of the shifting practices of gender and r...

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Published in:The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2009, Vol.96 (1), p.214-215
Main Author: Cox, Robert S.
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