Title: SPIRITISM AND RELIGION: CAN YOU TALK TO THE DEAD? Including A Study of the Most
Remarkable Cases of Spirit Control
Author: Baron Johan Lijencrants
Publisher: The Devin-Adair Co.
City: New YorkYear: 1918 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 296Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: First edition from 1918 of SPIRITISM AND RELIGION: CAN YOU TALK TO THE DEAD? 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. In overall very good condition: Light chafing to edges and
extremities; spine ends bruised and rubbed; owner's name on front inside board;
page edges a bit darkened; pages are otherwise clean and free of markings. 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.
