The Other Side of Salvation
Subtitle: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Religious Experience
Publisher: Skinner House Books
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781558964488
Subjects: Religion: general; Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; c 1800 to c 1900; Spiritualism; History Of Religion (General); Occult Sciences; Alternate Spirituality; Spirituality - General; Religion; United States; Spiritualism - General; History; 19th century
First sentence: IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY, many of the people who had embraced the Enlightenment ideal of reason and accepted the power of science to explain the natural world also recognized that science to explain the natural world also recognized that science had left religion and spirit behind as either false or irrelevant.