Fortune Telling and American Religious Freedom
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of people who were arrested for pretending telling fortunes appealed their convictions on religious freedom grounds. These accused fortune tellers, mostly white spiritualist women, were arrested for violating state statutes across the Un...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
[2018]
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Religion and American culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-306 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Secularism
/ Fortune-teller
/ Spiritism
/ Prohibition
/ Religious freedom
/ History 1880-1920
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
vagrancy
B Policing B Religious Freedom B Spiritualism B Secularism |
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