{"product_id":"spiritualism-in-antebellum-america-9780253333155","title":"Spiritualism in Antebellum America","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" . . . 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\". . . 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" --Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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. \u003ci\u003eSpiritualism in Antebellum America\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBret E. Carroll is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844190540050,"sku":"9780253333155","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_865e007f-92d5-4163-9b41-96928730ca30.jpg?v=1737313701","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spiritualism-in-antebellum-america-9780253333155","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}