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- London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1998.
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- Video — 1 online resource (53 min.)
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In most religions, a belief in an afterlife is an essential element of the faith. Even those with little or no faith often believe that death is not the end. Everyman goes in search of those with a profound belief in an afterlife. While cameras observe as mediums and spiritualists try to contact the dead, at the heart of the film are four people who have lost loved ones. Some have already made contact with their lost relatives. Has it helped them? Others - more sceptical - embark on a journey to search for someone who claims to be able to make contact with their loved one. Will they feel hoodwinked? Or will they believe that they have actually made contact?
2. Searching for Raymond : Anglicanism, spiritualism, and bereavement between the two world wars [2000]
- Kollar, Rene.
- Lanham : Lexington Books, c2000.
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- Book — xvi, 187 p. ; 24 cm.
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This text examines the relationship between the Anglican Church and Spiritualism following World War I. A study of the "claims of Spiritualism in relation to the Christian faith" carried out after World War I, but only made public in 1979, was found to be favourable to Spiritualism. The book explores the rise in the popularity of Spiritualism after the war as Anglican's failed to find solace in the teachings of their own faith; and it explores the connection of religious faith and bereavement between the two World Wars.
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- Hazelgrove, Jenny.
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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- Book — 294 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.
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- Spiritualism after the Great War-- Catholic connections-- virgin mothers and warrior maids-- possession, dissociation and unseen families-- mothers. mediums and vampires-- frustration, repression and deviant desire-- the dual agenda of psychical research-- becoming a medium.
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4. Psychic news [1932 - ]
- London, England : Psychic Press, Ltd.,
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- Journal/Periodical — v. : ill ; 36 cm.
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- Ferguson, Christine.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
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- Book — 1 online resource (241 pages). Digital: data file.
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- Acknowledgements-- List of Figures-- Series Editor's Preface-- Introduction-- Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium-- Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy, and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance-- Eugenic Summer Lands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres-- Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation-- Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology, and Thanato-Rehabilitationism-- Dead Letters: Bio-Aesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siecle Spiritualism-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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- Kontou, Tatiana.
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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- Book — x, 245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Theatres in the Skull: The Society for Psychical Research and Actress Narratives Well-tuned Mediums: May Sinclair and Dorothy Richardson Phantasms of Florence Cook in Michele Roberts' In the Red Kitchen Natural and Spiritual Evolutions: A. S. Byatt's Angels and Insects The Other World Illuminated: Wiring Science, Text and Spirit in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity Queering the Seance: Sarah Waters' Affinity Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index.
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7. Spirit matters : occult beliefs, alternative religions, and the crisis of faith in Victorian Britain [2018]
- Franklin, J. Jeffrey, author.
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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- Book — xx, 264 pages ; 24 cm
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- Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions
- The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Anthony Trollope's religion : the orthodox/heterodox boundary
- The influences of Buddhism and comparative religion on Matthew Arnold's theology
- Interpenetration of religion and national politics in Great Britain and Sri Lanka : William Knighton's Forest life in Ceylon
- Identity, genre, and religion in Anna Leonowens' The English governess at the Siamese court
- Ancient Egyptian religion in late-Victorian England
- The economics of immortality : the demi-immortal Oriental, Enlightenment vitalism, and political economy in Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Conclusion : from Victorian occultism to new age spiritualities.
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Spirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling authority of science, and the first full exposure of the West to non-Christian religions. J. Jeffrey Franklin investigates the diversity of ways that spiritual seekers struggled to maintain faith or to create new faiths by reconciling elements of the Judeo-Christian heritage with Spiritualism, Buddhism, occultism, and scientific naturalism. Spirit Matters covers a range of scenarios from the Victorian hearth and the state-Church altar to the frontiers of empire in Buddhist countries and Egyptian crypts. Franklin reveals how this diversity of elements provided the materials for the formation of new hybrid religions and the emergence in the 20th century of New Age spiritualities. Franklin investigates a broad spectrum of experiences through a series of representative case studies that together trace the development of unorthodox religious and spiritual discourses. The ideas and events discussed by Franklin through these case studies were considered outside the domain of orthodox religion yet still religious or spiritual rather than atheistic or materialistic. Among the works-obscure and canonical-he analyzes are Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni and A Strange Story; Forest Life in Ceylon, by William Knighton; Anthony Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton; Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court; Literature and Dogma, by Matthew Arnold ; and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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- Natale, Simone, 1981- author.
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
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- Book — xi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- The medium on the stage : theatricality and performance in the spirit séance
- Parlor games : play and social life in the haunted house
- Breaking the news : controversy, sensation, and the popular press
- Mediums and stars : religion, consumerism, and celebrity culture
- Stranger than fiction : print media, automatic writing, and popular culture
- The marvels of superimposition : spirit photography and spiritualism's visual culture.
- Daillon, Jacques de, 1645-1726.
- London : printed for the author, in the year, 1723.
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- Book — [2], x, v-182p. ; 8⁰.
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10. Victorian women and the theatre of trance : mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance [2009]
- Lehman, Amy.
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
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- Book — ix, 202 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Victorian theatre and theatricality in Victorian culture
- The Victorian woman as actress and the roles she played
- Mesmer and Charcot : the trance performance as medical show
- The performances of Elizabeth O'Key : the medical theatre of mesmerism
- "Double consciousness" in acting theory and trance state
- "Call me Gypsy" : Anna Cora Mowatt's trance performances
- The rise of spiritualism and the Fox sisters
- Séance as theatre
- Spirit travels to distant times and places
- Cora L.V. Richmond : spiritualist trance star
- The performance of "Ouina" and the racial "other"
- Spiritualism crosses over to England : Florence Cook and the materialization séance
- "Katie King" and Robert Dale Owen
- Materialization, ectoplasm, and realism.
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11. Ghostwriting modernism [2002]
- Sword, Helen.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
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- Book — xiii, 212 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Necrobibliography
- The undeath of the author
- Necrobardolatry
- Metaphorical mediumship
- Modernist hauntology
- Ghostwriting postmodernism
- Epilogue ghostreading.
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12. The trial of woman : feminism and the occult sciences in Victorian literature and society [1992]
- Barsham, Diana.
- New York : New York University Press, 1992.
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- Book — x, 253 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
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13. Reason for hope : a spiritual journey [1999]
- Goodall, Jane, 1934-
- New York, NY : Warner Books, 2003, c1999.
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- Book — xvii, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Those who know Jane Goodall through her many books, speeches, and National Geographic television specials, know she is obviously no ordinary scientist. She is a genuinely spiritual woman who cares passionately about the preservation and enhancement of life in all its forms. Based upon the many spiritual experiences that have graced and shaped her outlook on life, Dr. Goodall is convinced there is a higher purpose to life, and that this purpose can best be served by a sense of reverence for creation - a commitment to opening our hearts and minds to the spiritual ties that bind us to the Earth. In this book, Dr. Goodall takes us through the pivotal events of her life - her childhood in war-torn England, her relationship with the Leakeys, her groundbreaking work with the chimpanzees of Gombe - and in doing so, touches upon such topics as faith and love, mysticism and science, the origins of good and evil and evolution, and the existence of the soul and of God. She sheds light not only on why millions of people today are hungry for meaning, but on the steps we can take to transform our lives for the better; to rekindle our spirits and reawaken our minds.
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14. Supernatural entertainments : Victorian spiritualism and the rise of modern media culture [2016]
- Natale, Simone, 1981- author.
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
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- Book — 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrations Digital: data file.
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- The medium on the stage : theatricality and performance in the spirit séance
- Parlor games : play and social life in the haunted house
- Breaking the news : controversy, sensation, and the popular press
- Mediums and stars : religion, consumerism, and celebrity culture
- Stranger than fiction : print media, automatic writing, and popular culture
- The marvels of superimposition : spirit photography and spiritualism's visual culture.
- New York : Continuum, 1995.
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- Book — 204 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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An introduction to different kinds of material from various Celtic areas, with examples from the earliest times to the present day. Many of the pieces are presented as translations on Celtic Christianity drawing on creative and life-affirming qualities.
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- Houghton, Peter, 1938-
- London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002.
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- Book — 1 online resource (176 pages)
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- 1. Awareness.
- 2. Commitment.
- 3. Sweetness and Cold.
- 4. Pilgrimage.
- 5. First Creation.
- 6. Focus.
- 7. Alignment.
- 8. Wise Creating.
- 9. Enlightenment. Coda: Future Thoughts. References. Index.
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- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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- Book — xi, 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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"Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture" explores the wide range of issues centered round the theme of male spirituality in the 19th century drawing on the disciplines history, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism. The study focuses on a wide range of issues including ideological and iconographical representations across the major Christian denominations, militarianism and hymnody and male sexuality and homoeroticism. At this time controversial, this study looks beyond the "canon" of acknowledged prescribers of gender identity, focusing on non-conformist figures such as William Booth and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and also the work of 19th century homosexual writers such as John Addington Symonds. The study also explores relational aspects of gender, examining the work of women writers such as Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Charlotte Bronte and their writing on men and masculinity, and at male responses to the figure of the Virgin Mary. .
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- Zemka, Sue, 1958-
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1997.
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- Book — viii, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Clapper, Gregory Scott, author.
- Eugene, OR : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2014.
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- Book — 1 online resource (111 pages)
- Elmer, Peter.
- 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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- Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Making of an Early Modern Miracle Healer: Valentine Greatrakes, 1629-1660
- 3. Greatrakes, Ireland, and the Restoration, 1660-1665
- 4. 'An Exemplar of Candid and Sincere Christianity': Greatrakes' Mission to England in 1666
- 5. Healing, Witchcraft, and the Body Politic in Restoration Britain
- 6. Epilogue and conclusion
- Appendix 1: The family tree of Valentine Greatrakes
- Appendix 2: A biographical index of those either cured by Greatrakes, or who testified, witnessed, or commented upon his cures
- Appendix 3: Letters addressed to Valentine Greatrakes, 1666-1672
- Bibliography
- Index.
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