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Title: Abraham Lincoln and religion. general
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Spiritualism Spiritualism Spiritualists Spiritualists
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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n, Illinois, and grew to a membership of about 50,000 in forty coun-tries (10,000 in the United States) by 1930. Theosophy remains small andlargely confined to urban elites, but has been a major vehicle for blendingAsian and Western traditions in American religious life. AU C°Uro)n nr„ ■ spitod • othlane ▲ ear!chu ■■r,, °a Fr! Number ofperiodicals,per town 1 _•») PART IV: PROTESTANT EXPANSION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY dustrialization,;cience impelledto explore new3urished in the uman mediumsi transmit reli-urned-over dis-laimed to haveice spread from>outh, where it.1 theology, byspheres, andublican moral-y. Spiritualists>tead personales in such large! formed short-and Kiantone lirHna, manyme importanto formed thes largest suchentury.lined Russian Steel Olcottcal searching. 1875, whichw promoting>sian religiousitual guidesdements intoBuddhism inn of the rival895 and laterY on the West in 1898, and8. Back East,headquartersn forty coun-is small and fojaLlend ing
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Spiritualist periodicals, 1847-1900 • 2 * 3 1 Number of • 4 periodicals,per town • 4 • 6 J • 1 • 1 75 Emma Hardinge Britten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 2 Emma Hardinge Britten From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emma Hardinge Britten (1823-1899) is known for her work as an advocate for the early Modern SpiritualistMovement. Due to the publication of her speeches and writing on the spiritual movement, and an incompleteautobiography which was edited by her sister, much of Emmas life and work is publicly recorded. She isremembered as a writer, orator, and practitioner of the movement. Her books, Modern American Spiritualism(1870) and Nineteenth Century Miracles (1884), are some of the greatest records of the history of early modernspiritualism movement in America. Ms. Hardinge was born in London, England in 1823 under the name Emma Floyd. She developed a reputationfor apparent abilities as a spiritual medium during her early years. As a child, Emma had a ha

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