Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism 1. Beginnings in America 2. The Phenomena of Spiritualism 3. Early Sources of Spiritualism 4. America 1840-60 5. Social Causes of the Rise and Fall of American Spiritualism; Part II: Spiritualism in Britain 6. Movement and Organization 7. The Growth of Organization 8. The Development of Religious Institutions 9. Spiritualism in the Twentieth Century 10. Recruitment and the Child 11. Spiritualism Today 12. Beliefs and Practices; Part III: Sociology and Spiritualism 13. Church, Sect and Cult 14. Authority, Leadership and Organization 15. Social Sources of Spiritualism; Appendix; Statistics of British Spiritualism; Bibliography; Index
Biography
G. K. Nelson
