Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling

Cathy Gutierrez: Introduction

Part 1: Locating Spiritualism
1 Adam Crabtree: Mesmerism and the Psychological Dimension of Mediumship
2 Arthur Versluis: Spiritualism and the American Swedenborgian Current
3 Cathy Gutierrez: Dead Reckonings: Spirits and Corpses at the Crossroads
4 Mary Keller: Spirit Possession
5 Marlene Tromp: Queering the Séance: Bodies, Bondage, and Touching in Victorian Spiritualism

Part 2: In Conversation
6 John Patrick Deveney: Man is a Spirit Here and Now: The Two Faces of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Creation of the Magical Occult Theosophical Spiritualist New Thought Amalgam
7 Elizabeth Lowry: Pinkie at Play: Postcolonialism, Politics, and Performance in Nettie Colburn Maynard’s Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?
8 Christa Shusko: Criticising the Dead: Spiritualism and the Oneida Community
9 Jeremy Rapport: The Nature of Reality: Christian Science and Spiritualism

Part 3: New Directions
10 Lynn L. Sharp: Reincarnation: The Path to Progress
11 John Warne Monroe: Crossing Over: Allan Kardec and the Transnationalisation of Modern Spiritualism
12 Waleska de Araújo Aureliano and Vânia Zikán Cardoso: Spiritism in Brazil: From Religious to Therapeutic Practice
13 Darryl V. Caterine: Between Two Worlds: Transformations of Spiritualism in Contemporary Lily Dale

Part 4: Channeling
14 Hugh Urban: “The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present ”Channeling, Television, and the New Age
15 Ruth Bradby: Channeling—The Cinderella of the New Age? A Course in Miracles, the Seth Texts, and Definition in New Age Spiritualities
16 Adam Klin-Oron: Individual Power, Cultural Constraints Israeli Channeling in Global Context
17 Christopher Partridge: Channeling Extraterrestrials: Theosophical Discourse in the Space Age

Part 5: The Next Move
18 Jeffrey Kripal: Secret Lives of the Superpowers: The Remote Viewing Literature and the Imaginal
19 Douglas E. Cowan: Psychics, Skeptics, and Popular Culture
20 Michael Barkun: The Occultists and the Spaceman: The Metamorphosis of Dorothy Martin
21 Catherine L. Albanese: Historical Imagination and Channeled Theology Or, Learning the Law of Attraction