Messages From Beyond
Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age
$65.86
- Paperback
254 pages
- Release Date
11 March 1997
Summary
Explores the origins of the Spiritualist movement and relates its rise and fall to the wider intellectual and religious currents in colonial Australian society.The Spiritualist movement had its beginnings in the United States in the late 1840s and within a few years had spread to Australia. With its seances, mediums, trances, ‘magnetisers’, table-tilting and other mysterious psychic phenomena, it attracted media frenzy and public furore, but also many deeply serious converts-often highly inte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522849103 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522849105 |
| Author: | Al Gabay |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 254 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 11 March 1997 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 143mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Sustainability & the Environment |
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About The Author
Al Gabay
Dr Al Gabay is Senior Lecturer in History and Religious Studies in the School of Arts and Education at La Trobe University (Bendigo campus). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals on aspects of the spiritualist movement in Australia, and is the author of The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin (CUP, 1992).
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