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Libra Esoterica

Religion, Psychical Research, Spiritualism, and the Occult

by Roger Luckhurst

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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This article examines the relation of modernism with religion, particularly spiritualism, psychical research, and the occult. It argues against the claim that one central way of defining modernity is to emphasize its rejection of religion. The article explains that modernity did not by any means put an end to the quest for spirit, but actively promoted new avenues of curiosity and research in which the spirit leaked back into the grid of secular knowledge. It contends that modernity only transferred the language and affect of the sacred displaced into other discourses and suggests that the cultural fascination with ghosts or with sublime experience performs the presence of the absence of God in modernity.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism, Parapsychology and psychical research, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “occult” in the title, “occult” in the description, “occult” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “occult”· in title
    • “occult”· in description
    • “occult”· in subject
    • “occult”· in edition title
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the title, “Spiritualism” in the description, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “spiritualism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Spiritualism”· in title
    • “Spiritualism”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
    • “Spiritualism”· in edition title
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref and openalex matched “psychical research”. Retained metadata contains “Psychical research” in the title, “Psychical research” in the description, and “Psychical research” in the edition title.

    • “psychical research”· via Crossref
    • “psychical research”· via OpenAlex
    • “Psychical research”· in title
    • “Psychical research”· in description
    • “Psychical research”· in edition title

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2010-12-16Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press eBooksEnglish—Unknown

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Catalog id
crossref:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545445.013.0025
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