Victorian Occultism And The Making Of Modern Magic
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Victorian Occultism And The Making Of Modern Magic
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Author : A. Butler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-01-05
Victorian Occultism And The Making Of Modern Magic written by A. Butler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-05 with History categories.
The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice and belief. Butler examines the individuals, institutions and literature associated with this revival and demonstrates how Victorian occultism provided an alternative to the tightening camps of science and religion in a social environment that nurtured magical beliefs.
Satanism Magic And Mysticism In Fin De Si Cle France
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Author : R. Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-06-07
Satanism Magic And Mysticism In Fin De Si Cle France written by R. Ziegler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with History categories.
An interdisciplinary study of the supernatural and the occult in fin-de-siècle France (1870-1914), the present volume examines the explosion of interest in devil-worship, magic and mysticism both from an historical perspective and through analysis of key literary works of the period.
Magical Treasure Hunting In Europe And North America
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Author : J. Dillinger
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-22
Magical Treasure Hunting In Europe And North America written by J. Dillinger and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-22 with Religion categories.
The first comprehensive history of magical treasure hunting from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, revealing a magical universe of treasure spirits, and wizards who tried to deal with them. Combining history and anthropology, this study sees treasure hunting as an expression of shifting economic mentalities and changing ideas about history.
Death And The Victorians
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Author : Adrian Mackinder
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2024-04-04
Death And The Victorians written by Adrian Mackinder and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-04 with History categories.
From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death - and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age. Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it. Walk among London’s festering graveyards, where the dead were literally rising from the grave. Visit the Paris Morgue, where thousands flocked to view the spectacle of death every single day. Lift the veil on how spirits were invited into the home, secret societies taught ways to survive death, and the latest science and technology was applied to provide proof of the afterlife. Find out why the Victorian era is considered the golden age of the ghost story, exemplified by tales from the likes of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde and Henry James. Discover how the birth of the popular press nurtured our taste for murder and that Jack the Ripper was actually a work of pure Gothic horror fiction crafted by cynical Victorian newspapermen. Death and the Victorians exposes the darker side of the nineteenth century, a time when the living were inventing incredible ways to connect with the dead that endure to this day.
The Siblys Of London
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Author : Susan Sommers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-25
The Siblys Of London written by Susan Sommers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-25 with Religion categories.
Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.
Witchcraft And Magic In Ireland
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Author : Andrew Sneddon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Witchcraft And Magic In Ireland written by Andrew Sneddon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Religion categories.
This is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.
Vibratory Modernism
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Author : A. Enns
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-07-19
Vibratory Modernism written by A. Enns and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-19 with Art categories.
Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Like A Tree Universally Spread
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Author : Keith Edward Cantú
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
Like A Tree Universally Spread written by Keith Edward Cantú and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"This book reconstructs the tantalizing tale of Sri Sabhapati Swami (ca. 1828-1923/4), today a little-known swami who was originally from Tamil Nadu in southern India, and historically contextualizes a fascinating type of yoga that Sabhapati claimed would lead to an experience of being "like a tree universally spread." The practical method of having this experience, in technical terms called the samadhi or "composure" of sivarajayoga or the "Royal yoga for siva," was published in English and multiple Indic languages and lavishly illustrated in diagrams on subtle and physical bodies. This book is the first book-length treatment on Sabhapati Swami, scholarly or otherwise, and uses critically-edited sources printed in Tamil, Devanagari, and Bengali scripts to reveal the expansion of his literature across South Asia and globally, the vast majority of which has never before been considered in any scholarly work to date. The book shows how intertwined Sabhapati's yoga is with historical Tamil saiva and Siddha movements, including the mythos of the rishi Agastya, and also with Hathayoga and mantra-based ritual. It also takes into account his and his followers' wrestling with the Victorian scientific worldview and their rationalization of Hindu philosophical discourses in the colonial period. Finally, the book demonstrates the extent to which Sabhapati's teachings were integrated into esoteric religious movements such as the Theosophical Society, the Thelema of Aleister Crowley, and New Thought, and suggests that a reappraisal of scholarship on the roots of yoga in these movements is long overdue"--
Werewolf Histories
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Author : Willem de Blécourt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Werewolf Histories written by Willem de Blécourt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.
The Occult World
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Author : Christopher Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05
The Occult World written by Christopher Partridge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Religion categories.
This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.