The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914 - Couverture rigide

Oppenheim, Janet

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521265053 ISBN 13 : 9780521265058

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1985

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Other World examines the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It explores the variety of social background, education, and professional expertise that characterized the men and women who attended séances and investigated psychic phenomena, and it places them in the context of their times without ridiculing their beliefs. It is not concerned with the question of whether psychic phenomena are 'real', but rather attempts to understand the reasons why artisans, intellectuals, and aristocrats alike embraced spiritualism as a surrogate religion or endorsed psychical research as the science of the future. Whether self-educated workers, medical doctors, clergymen, housewives, university professors, journalists, comparative psychologists, or Nobel prize-winning physicists, they cannot be dismissed as cranks and eccentrics. Their efforts to mediate between the demands of science and the comforts of faith reflected anxieties central to the Victorian and Edwardian decades.

Revue de presse :

"This is a book of rich and complex texture dealing with important activities of Victorian and Edwardian society: spiritualism and physical research....a most stimulating study..." Journal of Modern History

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0521265053
• ISBN 13: 9780521265058
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 504