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Avatars of the soul: Cultures of science, medicine, and the occult in modern Germany.

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Title/Author:	Avatars of the soul: Cultures of science, medicine, and the occult in modern Germany./
Author:	Treitel, Corinna Adele.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1999,
Description:	415 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 61-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International61-07A.
Subject:	European history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9935915
ISBN:	9780599370999

Avatars of the soul: Cultures of science, medicine, and the occult in modern Germany.
Treitel, Corinna Adele.

Avatars of the soul: Cultures of science, medicine, and the occult in modern Germany. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1999 - 415 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 61-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1999.

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"Avatars of the Soul" explores the history of modern German occultism as an integral part of German modernization. It focuses on the period from the 1880s to the 1930s, decades during which ever more Germans turned to spiritualism, psychical research, parapsychology, astrology, and Theosophy. Whereas previous historians have noted modern occultism only as it related to National Socialism, my research has shown that such treatment ignores the sociopolitical diversity of the movement and thus captures only part of its historical significance. This study views the German occult movement as a complex adaptation to the exigencies of modern life. It argues that participants in the movement adapted and fused phenomena, beliefs, and practices drawn not only from religion but also science so as to create a spiritualized world view appropriate to the highly rationalized modern age. Three parts convey the complex cultural links forged by German occultists. The first part presents the movement's participants. It connects their fascination with spiritualist mediums to their interests in science, medicine, religion, and philosophy; it then examines the socio-economic reasons for the movement's spread by focusing on occultism as a facet of twentieth-century mass culture. The second part explores how occultism achieved meaning in three realms of practice: Theosophy, where occult studies were used to achieve spiritual enlightenment; the arts, where painters, writers, and dancers used occult states for creative ends; and the applied sciences, where psychologists, detectives, engineers, and doctors used occult techniques to solve characteristic problems of modernity. The final part considers the movement's different meanings by attending to contemporary reactions to occultism. It focuses on the responses of the churches, state, and National Socialists, and ends with the Nazi ban on occult groups in 1937. The modern German occult movement allows us to explore how a strong faith in scientific reason coexisted with a deep-seated challenge to scientific authority on the question of spiritual experience. "Avatars of the Soul" argues that this tension was central to the ways in which many Germans attempted to come to terms not just with modernity's threats but also its opportunities.

ISBN: 9780599370999Subjects--Topical Terms:

1972904
European history.

Avatars of the soul: Cultures of science, medicine, and the occult in modern Germany.
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