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082 _a209.73 Hud
100 _a"Hudson, Winthrop.S."
245 0 _aReligion in America
260 _aNew York
260 _bCharles Scribners
260 _c1965
300 _a447p.
520 _aDuring the decade before the Civil War, a growing number of Americans gathered around tables in dimly lit rooms, joined hands, and sought enlightening contact with spirits. The result was Spiritualism, a distinctly colorful religious ideology centered on spirit communication and spirit activity. Spiritualism in Antebellum America analyzes the attempt by spiritually restless Americans of the 1840s and 1850s to negotiate a satisfying combination of freedom and authority as they sought a sense of harmony with the universe.
650 _aReligion
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