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| Titre : | Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation |
| Auteurs : | Mitch Horowitz |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Bantam Books, 2009 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-553-90698-1 |
| Résumé : |
It touched lives as disparate as those of Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mary Todd LincolnÔÇöwho once convinced her husband, Abe, to host a s├®ance in the White House. Americans all, they were among the famous figures whose paths intertwined with the mystical and esoteric movement broadly known as the occult. Brought over from the Old World and spread throughout the New by some of the most obscure but gifted men and women of early U.S. history, this ÔÇ£hidden wisdomÔÇØ transformed the spiritual life of the still-young nation and, through it, much of the Western world. Yet the story of the American occult has remained largely untold. Now a leading writer on the subject of alternative spirituality brings it out of the shadows. Here is a rich, fascinating, and colorful history of a religious revolution and an epic of offbeat history.**** From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board_,_ **Occult America **briskly sweeps from the nationÔÇÖs earliest days to the birth of the New Age era and traces many people and episodes, including: ÔÇóThe spirit medium who became AmericaÔÇÖs first female religious leader in 1776 ÔÇóThe supernatural passions that marked the career of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ÔÇóThe rural Sunday-school teacher whose clairvoyant visions instigated the dawn of the New Age ÔÇóThe prominence of mind-power mysticism in the black-nationalist politics of Marcus Garvey ÔÇóThe Idaho druggist whose mail-order mystical religion ranked as the eighth-largest faith in the world during the Great Depression Here, too, are AmericaÔÇÖs homegrown religious movements, from transcendentalism to spiritualism to Christian Science to the positive-thinking philosophy that continues to exert such a powerful pull on the public today. A feast for believers in alternative spirituality, an eye-opener for anyone curious about the unknown byroads of American history, **Occult America** is an engaging, long-overdue portrait of one nation, under many gods, whose revolutionary influence is still being felt in every corner of the globe. |
