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Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and geographies, the Brill Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling presents modern spirit possession in a variety of contexts. Weaving together the interrelated movements of Spiritualism along with its specific Franco and Latin American currents, articles explore the nineteenth-century beginnings of séances and trance mediumship. Channelling, an heir to Spiritualism begun in the 1970s and still flourishing today, is brought into direct conversation with its predecessors with a view to showing both continuity and disjuncture as the products of new cultural and religious needs. The Brill Handbook marks the first extensive collection on these two interrelated movements and examines themes such as gender, race, performance, and technology in each instance.

Spiritualism. --- Channeling (Spiritualism) --- Channelling (Spiritualism) --- Spirit channeling --- Spiritualism --- Communication with the dead --- Dead, Communication with the --- Metapsychology --- Spiritism --- Occultism --- spiritualism --- mesmerism --- mediumship --- the American Swedenborgian current --- spirits and corpses --- spirit possession --- bondage --- Victorian spiritualism --- nineteenth-century spiritualism --- the magical occult Theosophical spiritualist new thought amalgam --- postcolonialism --- politics --- Abraham Lincoln --- the dead --- the Oneida community --- Christian Science and spiritualism --- reincarnation --- Allan Kardec --- the transnationalisation of modern spiritualism --- spiritism in Brazil --- religious and therapeutic practice --- Lily Dale --- channeling --- television --- the New Age --- miracles --- the Seth Texts --- New Age spiritualities --- Israeli channeling --- channeling extraterrestrials --- superpowers --- the remote viewing literature --- the imaginal --- psychics --- skeptics --- popular culture --- Dorothy Martin --- historical imagination and channeled theology --- the law of attraction --- Nettie Colburn Maynard