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McGarry, Molly K.

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Haunting reason: Spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Haunting reason: Spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America./
Author:	McGarry, Molly K.
Description:	313 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-09, Section: A, page: 3496.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-09A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9945302
ISBN:	0599472820

Haunting reason: Spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America.
McGarry, Molly K.

Haunting reason: Spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America. - 313 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-09, Section: A, page: 3496.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1999.

Historians have long contended that in the last third of the nineteenth century, Americans became less religious and reform-minded, expressing their faith in science and their disenchantment with utopian imaginings. Yet during this age of supposed secularization, tens of thousands of men and women gathered around tables in darkened rooms to commune with the spirits of the dead. In the popular religious movement known as Spiritualism, I have found an important source of opposition to the putatively rational and secular values of the Gilded Age public sphere, suggesting new ways of conceptualizing the political culture of this period. I locate the persistence of faith in this ostensible age of reason not at the margins of American society, but at its very center.

ISBN: 0599472820Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Haunting reason: Spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America.
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520 $a This dissertation explores Spiritualism's tremendous appeal to nineteenth-century Americans. It was a movement that linked female spirituality with health and body politics and work on behalf of slaves, white women, and Native Americans. In Spiritualism, many found the possibility of uniting spirit and matter, politics and faith in a transformative vision of society.
520 $a Following the Civil War, a wide variety of observers found religious "excess" and unreasonable radicalisms increasingly suspect. Spiritualists were targeted by doctors as hysterical women, by Suffragists, as "irrational" citizens, and by protectors of moral order as purveyors of obscenity and vice. Spiritualists' engagement with these powerful forces of order was vexed and complicated, and at moments complicit, illuminating both the workings of nineteenth-century American culture as well as the making of a counterculture.
520 $a I argue that Spiritualism constituted a kind of shadow culture, ghosting nineteenth-century American social, political, and religious thought. Yet, this spiritual strain in American belief and action was as deeply embedded in the culture as it was counter to it. Spiritualists were central actors in major events of the nineteenth century, and Spiritualism helped constitute as well as contest a modern American political culture. This study reveals a radical and resilient cosmology born of the contests for authority in the antebellum and reconstructed United States.
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