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Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France

Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France

Sharp, Lynn L.

Paperback

OccultFrench History

ISBN10: 0739113399
ISBN13: 9780739113394
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 1 2006
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.78 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
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.

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