Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd. The book draws on major ...
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Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd. The book draws on major themes, such as the historical relationship between science and religion, the history of scientific observation, and the emergence of the subfield of anthropology of religion in the second half of the nineteenth century. 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. What becomes clear through this nuanced examination of Victorian anthropology is that arguments involving spirits or psychic forces usually revolved around issues of evidence, or lack of it, rather than faith or beliefs or disbeliefs.
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A paperback copy of this excellent book was sent to me by a friend. As I prefer hardback books for my library, I had read but a few chapters before ordering a hardback for my collection. Both Jews and Christians will benefit from Harvey Cox's journey whether in a "mixed" marriage or not. I treasure this volume.
alhepenicaba
May 14, 2010
There are regular classes centered on books about spiritual topics at my Interfaith retirement community. We are spending 10 classes on Common Prayers of Harvey Cox.
A Protestant Christian (ordained in the Baptist tradition) Cox married a Jewish woman during his midlife. The book follows the annual Jewish calendar; Cox describes how these observances help deepen his own faith; he reminds us that Jesus was born an Jew, lived as a Jew, and died a Jew. Throughout the book, Cox refers to "the rabbi Jesus." One member of the class observed, "If Christians had taken those facts to heart during the past 2000 years, how different would the Jew ish story have been."
