@article{22573/ctt1w0f1mr,
      recid = {808945},
      author = {Franklin, J. Jeffrey,},
      title = {Spirit matters : occult beliefs, alternative religions,  and the crisis of faith in Victorian Britain /},
      number = {22573/ctt1w0f1mr},
      pages = {1 online resource (xx, 264 pages)},
      abstract = {"Spirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox  religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian  Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in  the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling  authority of science, and the first full exposure of the  West to non-Christian religions. J. Jeffrey Franklin  investigates the diversity of ways that spiritual seekers  struggled to maintain faith or to create new faiths by  reconciling elements of the Judeo-Christian heritage with  Spiritualism, Buddhism, occultism, and scientific  naturalism.  Spirit Matters covers a range of scenarios  from the Victorian hearth and the state-Church altar to the  frontiers of empire in Buddhist countries and Egyptian  crypts. Franklin reveals how this diversity of elements  provided the materials for the formation of new hybrid  religions and the emergence in the 20th century of New Age  spiritualities." -- Publisher's description},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/808945},
}