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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Spiritualism"”.
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Secular spiritualism evolved: The market as communal sanctuary
… works, both religious and secular, a secular spiritualism is identified. The subversion of representation and suppression of a traditional sacred language, the revelation of the site and its phenomenal qualities, as well as the self-conscious manipulation of tectonics in terms of the …
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Dead Science: The Curious Relationship between Spiritualism and Science
Indiana University-Purdue University (IUPUI)
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The American phantasmagoria: The rise of spiritualism in nineteenth-century America
<p>Spiritualism, or the belief in spirit communications through mediums, was a movement in the nineteenth century which gained popularity within America. This thesis aims to widen the scope of spiritualism’s historiography by exploring spiritualists’ lives to reveal a more complex answer to why …
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Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
… city offices. Rey became heavily involved with spiritualism in the 1850s and established séance circles in New Orleans during the early 1870s. The voluminous transcripts of these séance circles have survived into the twenty-first century; however, scholarly use of these sources has been limited …
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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
… modes of scholarship alongside African-based spiritualism to investigate further the inclusion of ghosts. To accomplish this approach, this thesis separates the analysis into two distinctly gendered sections: the first section unpacks the relationship between African-based spiritualism and …
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Movement and Mediation: The metaphysical discourse of French Spiritualism in the works of Félix Ravaisson and Maurice Blondel
… philosophical sensibility known as French Spiritualism through a focused exploration of the themes of movement and mediation in the thought of Félix Ravaisson (1813-1900) and Maurice Blondel (1861-1949), respectively. The study, to the extent that spiritualism’s guiding inspiration was a …
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'I see you have quite gone over to the supernaturalists' : the spiritual and scientific Arthur Conan Doyle
… in order to embrace the supernatural, including spiritualism. It explores how Doyle’s diverse fiction and non-fiction define potentially supernatural phenomena as originating in the natural world. Consequently, for Doyle, the supernatural did not exist. This thesis investigates how Doyle …
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The reading of MacKenzie King
… In a final phase, King turned to the reading of spiritualism which complemented his Christian idealism and provided solace to a lonely man. The newly opened files on spiritualism at the National Archives reveal King to be a man who seriously explored psychical research. Reading was an important …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… in the late nineteenth-century intersection of spiritualism, Theosophy, and psychical research, with particular emphasis on Hermetic traditions. The historical analysis centers on a fine-grained evaluation of the evolutionary thought of Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, and …
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La subjetividad femenina y la modernidad en Puerto Rico y Brasil (siglos XIX y XX)
… These writers present different aspects of spiritualism regarding women. With the work of these two male intellectuals, I will focus on how spiritualism influences femininity while simultaneously participating in new economic forms. In the second part, with the novels of Roqué de Duprey and …
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A dreamer and a painter : visualizing the unconscious in the work of Arthur B. Davies, 1890-1920
… career, the discourses of Symbolism, science, spiritualism, psychoanalysis, and various forms of modernism all laid claim to the value of dreams and to Davies's art in wide-ranging, even contradictory ways. Reading Davies's paintings in light of critical responses and popular sources, I examine …
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‘Transportation is physical, communication is psychical’ : female sexuality and modes of communication in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature
… examines four modes of communication: mesmerism, spiritualism, telegraphism and epistolary correspondence, in relation to discourses of female sexuality and power in Anglo-American literature. The exploration of these modes from a feminist point of view will help re-evaluate the presence of women …
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The manifold operations of the gothic double
… upon the tension between contending attitudes—spiritualism and secularism, realism and romanticism, nationalism and imperialism, and aristocratic and bourgeois—it exposes how ideology embedded in these concepts either adds to or detracts from the greater good of the community.</p> <p>The …
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May Wright Sewall (1844-1920)
… has also been given to May's interest in spiritualism--a private part of her life for more than twenty years.May was a great organizer of clubs, especially those for women, and one of her greatest achievements was to consolidate hundreds of women's societies into a large national and …
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Lincoln's Dreams: An Analysis of the Sixteenth President's 'Night Terrors' and Other Chimeras
… House were either evidence of his belief in spiritualism or some divine prophecy, Lincoln’s response to those dreams reveals his true nature. This analysis helps us examine Lincoln’s interior as well as showing how a pre- Freudian culture responded to the dreams of a national hero.</p>
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… echoed in fictional encounters with Victorian spiritualism and in JanetFrame's model of "postmodern sainthood." Mystical imagery (such as darkness andlight, or the bottomless well) is employed to articulate the revealing "contradictions"of female experience and lesbian and feminist identity, …
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A Theological Comparison Between Social Science Models and a Biblcal Perspective of Servant Leadership
… probe of Greenleaf’s attempt to blend Eastern spiritualism with secular humanism, and Christianity. Chapter 4 addresses the categorical differences between a biblical worldview and the worldview of the social sciences in servant leadership research. Further, it delves into the work of Larry C. …
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