Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism

by Robert S. Cox

Book Overview

A product of the "spiritual hothouse" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity.

In Body and Soul, Robert Cox shows how Spiritualism sought to transform sympathy into social practice, arguing that each individual, living and dead, was poised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813940729
• ISBN13: 9780813940724
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"