{"product_id":"spiritualism-in-antebellum-america","title":"Spiritualism in Antebellum America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"At a time when the New Age movement is starting to make good on the Spiritualists' vision of America as a 'grand clairvoyant nation', Carroll's work raises provocative questions about the tension betwen freedom and authority in the harmonial religions of today.\" —Church History\u003cbr\u003e\n\" . . . offers the most comprehensive, sane examination of its topic yet available, no mean achievement for a subject long afflicted by religious partisanship and now perhaps in danger of sympathetic attraction.\" —Journal of American History\u003cbr\u003e\n\". . . fascinating reading it will be for those with a taste for good scholarly writing and a love of the American past and the manifold varieties of the spiritual quest.\" —The Quest\u003cbr\u003e\n\"In addition to being an excellent introduction to mid-19th-century Spiritualism, Carroll's work also offers scholars a new vantage point from which to view the religious creativity that was so prominent in antebellum America in general.\" —Choice\u003cbr\u003e\nDuring the decade before the Civil War, a growing number of Americans gathered around tables in dimly lit rooms, joined hands, and sought enlightening contact with spirits. The result was Spiritualism, a distinctly colorful religious ideology centered on spirit communication and spirit activity. \u003ci\u003eSpiritualism in Antebellum America\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the attempt by spiritually restless Americans of the 1840s and 1850s to negotiate a satisfying combination of freedom and authority as they sought a sense of harmony with the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Bret E. Carroll","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615980544380,"sku":"9780253333155","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780253333155_f7c7c9a3-7a36-4833-9d7a-53c227a045b4.jpg?v=1726136760","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/spiritualism-in-antebellum-america","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}