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Spiritualism

Meredith B. Little: Leading Glens Falls Spiritualist

June 20, 2020 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

MB Little Insurance AgencyGetting the vote was just one of the issues suffragettes encountered in the late 19th century.

They also faced the premise of some theologians who contended the afterlife was restricted to an exclusive old boy’s club.

“A benignant looking, white-bearded patriarch,” who distributed candy to local children annually on Christmas Eve, debunked the theory in a Sunday afternoon debate in 1894 at Psychical Hall.

No — not Santa Claus. [Read more…] about Meredith B. Little: Leading Glens Falls Spiritualist

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Glens Falls, Political History, Religious History, Spiritualism, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Upstate Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early NYS

June 20, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Upstate Cauldron - Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New YorkJoscelyn Godwin’s Upstate Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State (SUNY Press, 2015) is an outstanding guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, mediums, sects, cults, utopian communities, and spiritual leaders that arose in Upstate New York from 1776 to 1914.

Along with the best known of these, such as the Shakers, Mormons, and Spiritualists, Upstate Cauldron explores more than forty other spiritual leaders or groups, some of them virtually unknown. [Read more…] about Upstate Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early NYS

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Cultural History, Mormonism, Religious History, Shakers, Spiritualism

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