Thursday, August 29, 2013

NEW POSTING OF NEW ARTICLE! Click this to read, "Tea, Strawberries, and Spirits"


Wednesday, August 28, 2013 • 11:05 AM
Tea, Strawberries, and Spirits

posted by Maggi Smith-Dalton

"The religious movement known as "Spiritualism" permeated nineteenth-century life, growing so rapidly that, by 1869, Emma Hardinge [Britten](1823–1899), historian of the first two decades of the religion, estimated that there were eleven million Spiritualists “on the American continent” alone. Estimates made by various publications concluded that perhaps nearly half the population believed in some aspect of Spiritualism, which, briefly, is the belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living.

Boston, a hotspot for Spiritualism, boasted what was one of the most important and widely circulated periodicals. The Banner of Light, founded in 1857, had a national audience. It published weekly lists of Spiritualist lectures and meetings, along with literary works, chitchat, editorials, and listings of mediums and lecturers...."

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