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Making the seance `serious': Tables Tournantes and second empire bourgeois culture, 1853-1861.
- Source :
-
History of Religions . Feb99, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p219. 28p. - Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- Discusses the craze for spirit raps or seances in France from 1853 to 1861. Role of newspapers in the promotion of spirit phenomena in discussions; Argument of religious critics on the validity of the venets; Presence of seance practitioners in the French middle-class.
- Subjects :
- *TABLE-moving (Spiritualism)
*RELIGIOUS life
*SPIRITUALISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00182710
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- History of Religions
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1557406
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/463542