Radical spirits : spiritualism and women's rights in nineteenth-century America
An updated edition of a landmark book in the history of women's political activism and in the history of women and religion in America.
Print Book,English, ©2001
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2001
History
xxvii, 268 pages ; 23 cm
9780253340399, 9780253215024, 025334039X, 0253215021
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Introduction: "My sould's thraldom and its deliverance"
"Unbroken communication between the infinite and all beings"
"The blessedness of sinless childhood in the world beyond"
"Thine for agitation"
The meaning of mediumship
"The body and soul destroying marriage institution"
Mediums versus medical men
"No organization can hold me"
Conclusion: "The same hand that guided me here will hold me there."