Laboratories of Faith
ISBN: 9780801461712
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Occultism; Spiritualism; Mesmerism;

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.

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