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| Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism (Hardcover) |
| Author(s): Robert S. Cox |
| 288 pp. (2003) ISBN 0-813822-30-5 |
| Price: $39.50 |
| PE Club Discount Price: $35.55 |
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From the University of Virginia Press -- The sense in which Cox uses "sympathy" is in his efforts to show how American spiritualism attempted to promote a sense of empathy between individuals, living and dead, in what the publisher calls a "nexus of affect". While many historians of American spiritualism focus on the antislavery and egalitarian themes that ran through it, Cox shows that the movement was as varied politically as its participants and included factions that were proslavery and antiegalitarian, contradictions in beliefs and social actions that eventually, Cox believes, led to the "dissolution" of the movement. Not just for historians! |
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