The Other Side of Salvation: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Religious Experience

This book brings to life a previously untold chapter in American religious history. It provides a true account of nineteenth-century American reformers who believed they could talk to the dead. Impeccably researched with facts drawn from original source materials, it presents an astounding and entertaining array of characters including visionary seers, prophets, trance mediums, psychic healers and public lecturers.