ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Allan Kardec, New Religious Movement, Fox Sisters
27 Mar 2019
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Illness, death, and how to deal with these misfortunes. Worldview shapes conceptions of how the body works, causes of illness. Two 19th century parallel movements in us and france -- spiritualism and spiritism. Us: fox sisters in upstate new york claimed to receive messages from spirit of murdered peddlar whose body was buried beneath their house. France: at the same period, there was great interest in communication with spirit world. Allan kardec was influenced by the fox sisters phenomena. Wrote a series of books about contact with the spiritual world. Spiritualism: a us, uk, and canadian movement that emphasizes communication from beyond the grace through spirit mediums. Greenfield studied healer-mediums in brazil known as spiritists. Our normal world and the world of the spirits which are the vital force of the. Our normal world and the world of the spirits which are the vital force of the universe.
