Explores the origins, beliefs, practices, and significance of Spiritualism, a colorful religious ideology centered on spirit communication and spirit activity.

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and socie

A religious studies scholar argues that in antebellum America, evangelicals, not Transcendentalists, connected ordinary Americans with their spiritual roots in

“Braude has discovered a crucial link between the early feminists and the spiritualists who so captured the American imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In R

First Published in 2001. Charting the history and geo­graphic development of American religions, The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America dis­pla