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Journal Article
For Credulity's Sake 1
2020
Overview
Emily Ogden, author of Credulity; A Cultural History of US Mesmerism and Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, tackles the closely related topic of believability (or gullibility) in the late 18th and 19th centuries by fusing the uneven advance of secularization with a second body of sociological work addressing the enchantment-disenchantment process. First introduced by Max Weber, this modernization meta-narrative - if you will - involves liberating the person from enthrallment in fictitious beliefs. Stone, a reportedly hard-nosed public skeptic was \"converted\" to the power of animal magnetism by way of Brackett's memorable psychic - or in the parlance of the day, magnetic - abilities. A former medical student of French Colonial Creole descent whose family owned a Guadeloupe sugar plantation, Poyen, unexpectedly became the transmitter of French mesmerism to the U.S. In 1836, at the tender age of 22, he induced great interest in animal magnetism among elites in Boston and Providence, thus putting mesmerism on the map in America.
Publisher
Parapsychology Press
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