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Hearing things : religion, illusion, and the American enlightenment
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Hearing things : religion, illusion, and the American enlightenment

Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Leigh Eric Schmidt
ISBN: 0674003039 9780674003033
OCLC Number: 43913252
Description: xiii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Hearing loss: More than meets the eye --
Absences and presences --
Sound Christians: Extraordinary call --
God's oracles --
Spiritual disciplines, spiritual senses --
"The startled ear of night" --
The noises of revival --
"Take heed, therefore, how ye hear" --
Oracles of reason: Working the oracle --
Acoustics and the mechanization of the oracular voice --
"Truth changes from day to day, and so do I" --
How to become a ventriloquist: Vocal artifice --
Magic shows --
(Dis)trusting the ear --
"Shivered into pieces" --
"The diseased ear" and the unsound mind --
Voices from spirit-land: Talking with angels --
Bodies, spirits, senses --
Talking with Swedenborg --
Of tongue-speaking and the gifted hearer --
Sacramental technologies.
Responsibility: Leigh Eric Schmidt.

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