 | Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France Subjects: Mesmerism -- France -- History; Spiritualism -- France -- History; Occultism -- France -- History; France -- Religion -- 19th century; France -- Religion -- 20th century; An evocative history of alternative religious practices in France in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries that tells the interconnected stories of three movements: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism. John Warne Monroe is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is the winner of Yale University's Theron Rockwell Field Prize. |
