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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Clark, Emily Suzanne, 1984-     Subjects     African American Spiritual churches -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.     African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Religion.     Race -- Religious aspects.     New Orleans (La.) -- Church history -- 19th century.     New Orleans (La.) -- Religious life and customs.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Clark, Emily Suzanne, 1984-       by title:      A luminous brotherho...         MARC Display

A luminous brotherhood : Afro-Creole Sspiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Emily Suzanne Clark. by Clark, Emily Suzanne, 1984- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2016. Subjects African American Spiritual churches -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.   African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Religion.   Race -- Religious aspects.   New Orleans (La.) -- Church history -- 19th century.   New Orleans (La.) -- Religious life and customs. ISBN:  9781469628783 (cloth : alk. paper) : 1469628783 (cloth : alk. paper) Description:  xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans -- The creation of the Cercle Harmonique -- The disharmony of New Orleans city life -- Spiritualism and Catholicism -- The spiritual republic and America's destiny -- The spiritual republic in the Atlantic Age of revolutions. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practices Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history. Clark shows that the beliefs and practices of Spiritualism helped Afro-Creoles mediate the political and social changes in New Orleans, as free blacks suffered increasingly restrictive laws and then met with violent resistance to suffrage and racial equality. Drawing on fascinating records of actual séance practices, the lives of the mediums, and larger city-wide and national contexts, Clark reveals how the messages that the Cercle received from the spirit world offered its members rich religious experiences as well as a forum for political activism inspired by republican ideals. Messages from departed souls including François Rabelais, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Emanuel Swedenborg, and even Confucius discussed government structures, the moral progress of humanity, and equality. The Afro-Creole Spiritualists were encouraged to continue struggling for justice in a new world where "bright" spirits would replace raced bodies." From jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 277.6335 Cl missing from shelf Add Copy to MyList

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