Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
1. Introduction: Spiritualist Religion and the Search for Order
2. American Spiritualism and the Swedenborgian Order
3. Spiritualist Republicanism
4. The Structure of the Spirit World
5. The Ministry of Spirits
6. The Structure of Spiritualist Practice
7. The Structure of Spiritualist Society
Conclusion
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

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The story of believers in spirit communication in mid-19th-century America.

About the Author

Bret E. Carroll is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.