Download or read book The Age of Credulity a Letter to N B H in Answer to His Testimony in Favour of R Brothers with an Appendix in Vindication of the Scripture Prophecies By the Author of The Age of Infidelity and Other Tracts i e Thomas Williams written by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Credulity written by Emily Ogden and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.

Download or read book A Far Glory written by Peter L. Berger and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berger, an eminent religious sociologist and Protestant believer, attempts to square his own rational side with his religious impulses, bringing a lifetime of professional and personal reflection to bear on the nature of faith, its modern pluralistic context, and its social and individual consequences. A timely guide to the problems of faith for believers and skeptics alike.

Download or read book The Crime of Credulity written by Herbert Newton Casson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of the Supernatural in All Ages and Nations and in All Churches written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Place of Darkness written by Kendall R. Phillips and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty kinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since.

Download or read book London in the Eighteenth Century written by Sir Walter Besant and published by London : A. & C. Black. This book was released on 1902 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The History of the Supernatural in All Ages and Nations written by William Howitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1863, this two-volume history identifies common links in supernatural belief across all ages and cultures.

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Download or read book A View of the Controversy concerning the Miraculous Powers which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church As it stands between the Introductory Discourse by Conyers Middleton and Observations on the Introductory Discourse by H Stebbing With occasional remarks on other writers in this controversy And a Postscript occasioned by Mr Brooke s Defensio miraculorum c written by CHRISTIAN CHURCH. and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: