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Messages from beyond : spiritualism and spiritualists in Melbourne’s golden age 1870-1890

by Alfred J. Gabay

This history explores the rise and fall of the Spiritualist movement in colonial Australia, examining how believers sought empirical proof of life after death. It connects the movement's popularity to the wider intellectual, secular, and religious debates of the era.

Accession 29095 ISBN 0522849105 Publisher Melbourne University Press
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