04206nam 2201069 a 450 991082724140332120230721045017.097866123593091-282-35930-40-520-93406-710.1525/9780520934061(CKB)2670000000390785(EBL)470956(OCoLC)609850104(SSID)ssj0000297527(PQKBManifestationID)11220175(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297527(PQKBWorkID)10335299(PQKB)11314965(MiAaPQ)EBC470956(DE-B1597)520310(OCoLC)808600760(DE-B1597)9780520934061(Au-PeEL)EBL470956(CaPaEBR)ebr10676250(CaONFJC)MIL235930(EXLCZ)99267000000039078520070910d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGhosts of futures past[electronic resource] spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America /Molly McGarryBerkeley University of California Press20081 online resource (285 p.)"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p.0-520-25260-8 0-520-27453-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities.Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence of magic in an emergent culture of secularism, Molly McGarry brings a once marginalized practice to the center of American cultural history. Spiritualism provided an alchemical combination of science and magic that called into question the very categories of male and female, material and immaterial, self and other, living and dead. Dissolving the boundaries between them opened Spiritualist practitioners to other voices and, in turn, allowed them to imagine new social worlds and forge diverse political affinities.SpiritualismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryReligion and cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesReligion19th century19th century.academic.afterlife.american culture.american history.american spiritualism.belief.communication.cultural history.cultural studies.faith.ghosts.immaterial.magic.marginalized groups.marginalized voices.material world.medium.new religion.occult.otherworldly.parlor game.political.politics.religion.religious studies.scholarly.secular.secularism.social history.social studies.spirits.spiritualism.spiritualist.spirituality.uncanny.SpiritualismHistoryReligion and cultureHistory133.90973/09034McGarry Molly955723MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827241403321Ghosts of futures past4019735UNINA