{"id":10999,"date":"2023-03-28T19:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-essay-on-radical-spirits-spiritualism-and-womens-rights-in-nineteenth-century-america-by-ann-braude\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T19:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:52:03","slug":"book-essay-on-radical-spirits-spiritualism-and-womens-rights-in-nineteenth-century-america-by-ann-braude","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-essay-on-radical-spirits-spiritualism-and-womens-rights-in-nineteenth-century-america-by-ann-braude\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Essay on Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women\u2019s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Ann Braude"},"content":{"rendered":"

This book is about the emergence of Spiritualism in nineteenth-century America, especially the<\/p>\n

relationship of Spiritualism to social reform.\n<\/div>\n
In 1853, Henry Clarke Wright wrote the following in the Liberator, an abolitionist publication with a\n<\/div>\n
strong pro-Spiritualist bias: \u201cThese spirits … are fast tipping, rapping, and writing, and talking old ideas\n<\/div>\n
out of men\u2019s heads and new ones into them. These spirits, be they good or evil, are casting the spirit of\n<\/div>\n
war, slavery, drunkenness, sectarianism, patriotism and hosts of bad spirits out of men\u2019s hearts.\u201d In\n<\/div>\n
addition to the causes of abolition, temperance, and the like, Spiritualists also numbered among those\n<\/div>\n
advocating health and diet reform, dress reform, and women\u2019s rights.\n<\/div>\n
Your essay should begin with a short summary of the book, highlighting the author\u2019s main arguments.\n<\/div>\n
Then you should address the following guiding questions:\n<\/div>\n
Why? Why did this religious belief encourage social reform?\n<\/div>\n
Why does Braude describe Spiritualism as the first \u201cwomen\u2019s religion\u201d?\n<\/div>\n
In particular, Braude describes Spiritualism\u2019s contribution to the struggle for women\u2019s rights. In what\n<\/div>\n
ways did Spiritualism expand the role of women in America?\n<\/div>\n
Did you find the book convincing?\n<\/div>\n
Your essay should be double-spaced, use standards fonts and margins, and be no longer than 4-5 pages\n<\/div>\n
in length. You should cite material from the book to support your points. Your citations should be\n<\/div>\n
inserted into the document in the form of footnotes, and you should follow Turabian (Chicago Manual\n<\/div>\n
of Style) guidelines. If you quote the author, you should designate that by using quotation marks and a\n<\/div>\n
footnote.This book is about the emergence of Spiritualism in nineteenth-century America, especially the\n<\/div>\n
relationship of Spiritualism to social reform.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book is about the emergence of Spiritualism in nineteenth-century America, especially the relationship of Spiritualism to social reform. In 1853, Henry Clarke Wright wrote the following in the Liberator, an abolitionist publication with a strong pro-Spiritualist bias: \u201cThese spirits … are fast tipping, rapping, and writing, and talking old ideas out of men\u2019s heads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=10999"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=10999"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=10999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}