{"product_id":"spiritualism-in-antebellum-america-religion-in-north-america-0253333156","title":"Spiritualism in Antebellum America (Religion in North America)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253333156\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carroll, Bret E.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At a time when the New Age movement is starting to make good on the Spiritualists' vision of America as a 'grand clairvoyant nation', Carroll's work raises provocative questions about the tension betwen freedom and authority in the harmonial religions of today.\" -Church History\" . . . offers the most comprehensive, sane examination of its topic yet available, no mean achievement for a subject long afflicted by religious partisanship and now perhaps in danger of sympathetic attraction.\" -Journal of American History\". . . fascinating reading it will be for those with a taste for good scholarly writing and a love of the American past and the manifold varieties of the spiritual quest.\" -The Quest\"In addition to being an excellent introduction to mid-19th-century Spiritualism, Carroll's work also offers scholars a new vantage point from which to view the religious creativity that was so prominent in antebellum America in general.\" -ChoiceDuring the decade before the Civil War, a growing number of Americans gathered around tables in dimly lit rooms, joined hands, and sought enlightening contact with spirits. The result was Spiritualism, a distinctly colorful religious ideology centered on spirit communication and spirit activity. Spiritualism in Antebellum America analyzes the attempt by spiritually restless Americans of the 1840s and 1850s to negotiate a satisfying combination of freedom and authority as they sought a sense of harmony with the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51706141966624,"sku":"NEW0253333156","price":47.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/617fAHScmBL.jpg?v=1779392048","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/spiritualism-in-antebellum-america-religion-in-north-america-0253333156","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}