Exempel på spiritualism

• Abstraction should not be confused with spiritualism, which is just abstraction from location.

• In an age when technology and materialism seemed to have undermined religious faith, a new 'modern spiritualism' was suddenly born, and it exploded into prominence.

• At the core of spiritualism as a social practice was the medium.

• The failure of spiritualism may be attributed to a schism within its own defining concepts.

• The discourses of spiritualism and occultism collapse the poles of this defining dichotomy by insisting that the supernatural is natural.

• I will argue, however, that spiritualism violated not only the notion of stable gender identity but of identity altogether.

• Thus, spiritualism necessarily entails "gender trouble," just as its attempt to combine faith and science necessarily entails epistemological confusion.

• The history of spiritualism thus adds a cautionary note to those postmodern theories that see a subversive, utopian subject as a desideratum.

• Later, from the mid nineteenth century, new modes came in with spiritualism and revamped more urbanised astrology and fortune-telling.

• Spiritualism crossed and recrossed the boundaries between the spiritual and material world to offer this information, to provide this direct form of contact.

• Perhaps to the astonishment of his opponents, he did not try to inscribe the incompatibility between materialism/ republicanism and spiritualism/monarchism in the brain.

• They posited metaphysical intervention, spiritualism, imagination, and elitism as the antitheses to sweeping rationalism, simplification, and mass culture.

• Suddenly the absurdities of spiritualism are not funny anymore.

• Those scientists who accepted spiritualism saw their new work as continuation of their scientific research.

• Spiritualism's opponents did not underrate the social threat of the movement, particularly as it regarded sexuality and marriage.