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- From: rjb@carson.u.washington.edu (LeGrand Cinq-Mars)
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- Subject: Re: Documented Evidence
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 19:08:26 GMT
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- In addition to Albanese, Jon Butler's _Awash in a Sea of Faith:
- Christianizing the American People_ lights up these forgotten aspects
- of American religion -- aspects forgotten during the temporary
- ascendancy of the late 19th century drive to Christianize the US.
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- An earlier but very interesting work is Hannah Whitall Smith's series
- of investigations of (often magical) American religious groups and movements,
- edited by her granddaughter Ray Strachey (Rachel Costello Strachey) and
- published as _Religious Fanaticism_. (Smith was, by the way, a Quaker.)
- She has a good deal on Thomas Lake Harris and the Oliphants (for those who
- have read _The Difference Engine_, yes, that Oliphant, though Gibson and
- Sterling toned him down immensely), enough to show that they were not
- unique...
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- But Harris' ideas had at least one enthusiastic follower in the Golden
- Dawn, which brings us back, ultimately, to the British occult scene,
- and to Crowley and Gardner.
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- Sometimes it's hard to believe that *anyone* was "orthodox".
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- --LeGrand
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