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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Georgina Byrne; Boydell Press. |
ISBN: | 9781843835899 1843835894 |
OCLC Number: | 1000025719 |
Description: | XI, [1], 252 s. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The Church of England, spiritualism and the 'decline' of religious beliefSpiritualism in contextSpiritualism and English common cultureThe teachings of spiritualismThe Church of England and the departed c1850-1900The Church of England and spiritualismRe-imagining the afterlife in the twentieth centuryThe negotiation of belief |
Series Title: | Studies in Modern British Religious History, vol. 25. |
Responsibility: | Georgina Byrne. |
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A fantastic book. * PSYCHICAL STUDIES * A detailed and interesting study. * CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY * Byrne's book offers a welcome and important addition to the field. Her sources are charming, poignant, and thought-provoking by turn and, combined with her clear writing style, make the book appropriate for students as well as specialists. * VICTORIAN STUDIES REVIEW * Byrne's historiography is sophisticated and provocative, and her survey of Spiritualism's history could stand alone as an excellent introduction to the movement. [It] adds substantially to our growing awareness that the history of modern belief is not adequately represented by a narrative of irrelevance and decline. * MELBOURNE HISTORICAL JOURNAL * Has much to recommend it as a contribution to the social history of the Church of England. [It is] is well researched and clearly structured, and it will intrigue anyone concerned with the often elusive boundary between English church and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. * JOURNAL OF ANGLICAN STUDIES * Read more...

