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CONTENTS.--Report of the Committee of the Christian Commission in charge of the district of Maryland. Baltimore, Printed by J. Robinson, 1862. 16 p.--United States Christian Commission. Second report of the Committee of Maryland, September 1, 1863. Baltimore, Printed by Sherwood & co. [1863] 146 p. map.--United States Christian Commission. Second report of the Committee of Maryland. Baltimore, Printed by J. Young, 1864. 148 p. map.--United States Christian Commission. Third report of the Committee of Maryland ... Baltimore, Printed by J. Young, 1864. 286, 56 p. 3 fold. maps incl. front.--United States Christian Commission. Fourth report of the Committee of Maryland ... Baltimore, Innes & Maguire, printers, 1866. 279 p.
A product of the "spiritual hothouse" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity. In Body and Soul, Robert Cox shows how Spiritualism sought to transform sympathy into social practice, arguing that each individual, living and dead, was poised within a nexus of affect, and through the active propagation of these sympathetic bonds, a new and coherent society would emerge. Phenomena such as spontaneous somnambulism and sympathetic communion with the dead—whether through séance or "spirit photogra...
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