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Spiritualism's Place
2024
Overview
In Spiritualism's
Place , four friends and scholars who produce
the acclaimed Dig: A History
Podcast , share their curiosity and
enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the
history of Lily Dale. Located in western New York State,
the world's largest center for Spiritualism was founded in 1879.
Lily Dale has been a home for Spiritualists attempting to make
contact with the dead, as well as a gathering place for reformers,
a refuge for seekers looking for alternatives to established paths
of knowledge, and a target for skeptics.
This intimate history of Lily Dale reveals the role that this
fascinating place has played within the history of Spiritualism, as
well as within the development of the women's suffrage and
temperance movements, and the world of New Age religion. As an
intentional community devoted to Spiritualist beliefs and
practices, Lily Dale brings together multiple strands in the social
and religious history of New York and the United States over the
past 150 years: feminism, social reform, utopianism, new religious
movements, and cultural appropriation.
Podcasters and historians alike, Averill Earls, Sarah
Handley-Cousins, Elizabeth Garner Masarik, and Marissa C. Rhodes
each identify one site in Lily Dale and one theme that its history
illuminates. They use those sites and themes to approach Lily Dale
not as debunkers but as inquisitive researchers and storytellers.
At the same time, they also reflect on their own relationships
contending that it's never quite possible to separate grief, hope,
faith, and friendship from understandings of the past.
Spiritualism's Place breaks myths, unveils unexpected
stories, and finds new ways to contemplate Spiritualism's role in
American history.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781501777264, 1501777262, 9781501777288, 1501777289
