Occult America

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(HuntingtonNews.net) - Mitch Horowitz explores the influence of
spiritualism, Freemasonry and transcendentalism in America in "Occult
America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our
Nation" (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/OccultAmerica ).

Exhaustively researched (and yes, there's an index! as well as notes
on sources) and written in a very accessible style, "Occult America"
devotes much of its space to spiritualism, mesmerism, divination,
channeling and other movements that have often been dismissed out of
hand by experts, Horowitz says.

This is a mistake, he says, because to fully understand religion in
America -- perhaps the most religious nation in the world -- "to
really grasp the religious development of our nation, its occult
movements and believers must be understood for what they are:
communities of belief, who left a profound impact on the culture of
America and the modern world."..

Continued: http://xrl.us/OccultAmerica2

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