Description |
1 online resource (xix, 241 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Florida history and culture series |
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Florida history and culture series.
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Contents |
Context of Cassadaga: a historical overview of American spiritualism / Bret E. Carroll -- Seeking the sweet spirit of harmony: establishing a spiritualist community at Cassadaga, 1893-1933 / John J. Guthrie -- On the threshold of a new age: Cassadaga as a contemporary therapeutic community / Phillip Charles Lucas -- "No palaces among us": Cassadaga's historic architecture, 1895-1945 / Sidney P. Johnston -- Glossary of architectural terms / Sidney P. Johnston -- Keepers of the veil: life stories of Cassadaga's senior residents / Ann Jerome Croce and Paul Jerome Croce |
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Reverend Eloise Page: learning a new language, a student's perspective / Anne Barcley Morgan -- Photographic images of the camp: activities, ceremonies, and rituals / Gary Monroe |
Summary |
"Calling itself a "metaphysical mecca," the small town of Cassadaga, between Orlando and Daytona Beach in central Florida, was established more than a century ago on the principle of continuous life, the idea that spirits of the dead commune with the living. Though the founders of Cassadaga have passed on to the "spirit plane," the quaint Victorian town remains the oldest continuously active Spiritualist center in the South and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. While the community has often been sensationalized and misrepresented, this is the first serious work to examine its history, people, cultural environment, and religious system."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Spiritualism -- Florida -- Cassadaga
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spiritualism.
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Spiritualism
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SUBJECT |
Cassadaga (Fla.) -- History
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Subject |
Florida -- Cassadaga
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Guthrie, John J
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Lucas, Phillip Charles
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Monroe, Gary
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ISBN |
0813023556 |
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9780813023557 |
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