Psychic investigators: anthropology, modern spiritualism, and credible witnessing in the late victorian age
Auteur :
Sera-Shriar, Efram
Éditeur :
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN :
9780822947073
Date de publication :
14 juin 2022
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
For secularists such as Tylor and Clodd, spiritualism posed a major obstacle in establishing the legitimacy of the theory of animism: a core theoretical principle of anthropology founded in the belief of “primitive cultures†that spirits animated the world, and that this belief represented the foundation of all religious paradigms.