LEADER 03298nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910969295103321 005 20240501134409.0 010 $a9786612359309 010 $a9781282359307 010 $a1282359304 010 $a9780520934061 010 $a0520934067 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520934061 035 $a(CKB)2670000000390785 035 $a(EBL)470956 035 $a(OCoLC)609850104 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000297527 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220175 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297527 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10335299 035 $a(PQKB)11314965 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470956 035 $a(DE-B1597)520310 035 $a(OCoLC)808600760 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520934061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470956 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676250 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235930 035 $a(Perlego)4141532 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000390785 100 $a20070910d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGhosts of futures past $espiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America /$fMolly McGarry 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 300 $a"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p. 311 08$a9780520252608 311 08$a0520252608 311 08$a9780520274532 311 08$a0520274539 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMourning, 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. 330 $aGhosts 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. 606 $aSpiritualism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aReligion and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xReligion$y19th century 615 0$aSpiritualism$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and culture$xHistory 676 $a133.90973/09034 700 $aMcGarry$b Molly$0955723 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969295103321 996 $aGhosts of futures past$94357906 997 $aUNINA