LEADER 03537nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910973047803321 005 20251117092417.0 010 $a0-8139-2390-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275931 035 $a(EBL)3444073 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000798381 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11957455 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000798381 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10742328 035 $a(PQKB)10966510 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444073 035 $a(OCoLC)820011284 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24406 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614785 035 $a(BIP)33842691 035 $a(BIP)8287114 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275931 100 $a20030129d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBody and soul $ea sympathetic history of American spiritualism /$fRobert S. Cox 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCharlottesville $cUniversity of Virginia Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8139-2230-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-282) and index. 327 $aSleepwalking and sympathy -- Celestial symptoms -- Transparent spirits -- Angels' language -- Vox populi -- Invisible world -- Shades. 330 $aA 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 within a nexus of affect, and through the active propagation of these sympathetic bonds, a new and coherent society would emerge. Phenomena such as spontaneous somnambulism and sympathetic communion with the dead--whether through se?ance or "spirit photography"--were ways of transcending the barriers dissecting the American body politic, including the ultimate barrier, death. Drawing equally upon social, occult, and physiological registers, Spiritualism created a unique "social physiology" in which mind was integrated into body and body into society, leading Spiritualists into earthly social reforms, such as women's rights and anti-slavery. From the beginning, however, Spiritualist political and social expression was far more diverse than has previously been recognized, encompassing distinctive proslavery and antiegalitarian strains, and in the wake of racial and political adjustments following the Civil War, the movement began to fracture. Cox traces the eventual dissolution of Spiritualism through the contradictions of its various regional and racial factions and through their increasingly circumscribed responses to a changing world. In the end, he concludes, the history of Spiritualism was written in the limits of sympathy, and not its limitless potential. 606 $aSpiritualism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aSpiritualism$xHistory 676 $a133.9/0973 700 $aCox$b Robert S.$f1958-$01863212 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973047803321 996 $aBody and soul$94469720 997 $aUNINA