Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France
Lynn L. Sharp
Secular Spirituality challenges the traditional dichotomy between Enlightenment reason and religion. It follows French romantic socialists' and spiritists' search for a new spirituality based on reincarnation as a path to progress for individuals and society. Leaders like Allan Kardec argued for social reform; spiritist groups strove for equality; and women mediums challenged gender roles. Lynn L. Sharp looks closely at what it meant to practice spiritism, analyszing the movement's social and political critique and explaining the popularity of the new belief. She explores points of convergence and conflict in the interplay between spiritism and science, spiritism and psychology, and spiritism and the Catholic church to argue that the nineteenth century was not as "disenchanted" as has been thought. Secular Spirituality successfully places spiritism within a larger cultural conversation, going beyond the leaders of the movement to look at the way spiritism functioned for its followers.
년:
2006
판:
2
출판사:
Lexington Books
언어:
english
페이지:
270
ISBN 10:
0739113380
ISBN 13:
9780739113387
파일:
PDF, 16.06 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006