Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age
a forgotten history of the occult
$76.30
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2025
Summary
Masters of the Unseen: Mystics and the Allure of the Electromagnetic Age
The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered invisible forces of electricity and magnetism determined the world of science, so unseen powers commanded an unknown realm of human potential.
Drawing on untapped sources in Arabic in addition to European on…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393881103 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393881105 |
| Author: | Raphael Cormack |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Extraordinary. A delightfully engaging and highly original chronicle of our willingness to believe six impossible things before breakfast.” – Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading“Raphael Cormack is a brilliant archival sleuth and a riveting storyteller. In lives full of violent glamour, mystical illusions, and often hilarious twists, set against the inhumanity of the two world wars, Cormack’s madcap prophets reveal how modern politics and the occult are in fact propelled by the same question: do we dare to imagine another world?” – Anna Della Subin, author of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
About The Author
Raphael Cormack
Raphael Cormack is an award-winning editor, translator, and writer. The author of Midnight in Cairo, Cormack is assistant professor of modern languages and cultures at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
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