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A luminous brotherhood : Afro-Creole Spiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Emily Suzanne Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469628806
  • 1469628805
  • 9781469628790
  • 1469628791
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Luminous brotherhood.DDC classification:
  • 277.63/3508108996073 23
LOC classification:
  • BX6194.A464 C53 2016eb
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Contents:
Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans -- The creation of the Cercle Harmonique -- The disharmony of New Orleans city life -- Spiritualism and Catholicism -- The spiritual republic and America's destiny -- The spiritual republic in the Atlantic Age of revolutions.
Summary: In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans -- The creation of the Cercle Harmonique -- The disharmony of New Orleans city life -- Spiritualism and Catholicism -- The spiritual republic and America's destiny -- The spiritual republic in the Atlantic Age of revolutions.

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In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history.

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