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Body and Soul : A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism by Robert S. Cox is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Body and Soul : A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism about?
A 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 propagati
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert S. Cox
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813923901
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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