SPIRITISM AND RELIGION: CAN YOU TALK TO THE DEAD?
Book Details + Condition: The Devin-Adair Co. (New York). First edition from 1918. Including A Study of the Most Remarkable Cases of Spirit Control. Large octavo, maroon cloth with gilt title, etc, to spine, and gilt title and author to front board, with bibliography and index. 296 pages. Submitted by the author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for his Doctorate in Theology at the Catholic University of America. In his prefatory comments, J. Card Gibbons states: "This book on Spiritism is scholarly; it is sound in its thinking. I consider it a real advance in the literature of Spiritism". Chapters include: History of Modern Spiritism, Physical Phenomena, Genuine and Spurious Phenomena, Spiritism and Psychology, Spirit Identity, Spiritism as a Religion, and the Moral Aspects of Spiritism. Tight binding; rubbed corners and spine ends; light shelf wear to boards, with slight toning; small Weiser occult bookseller sticker on inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings save owner name and date on front free endpaper.
