Spettri della rivoluzione: Pratiche spiritiche, mutamenti sociali e inquietudini psicologiche tra la fine dell'Ottocento e l'inizio del Novecento

The paper explores the role played by some spirit circles and journals in Italy during the second half of the 19th century. Spirit conjuring and seeing ghosts gave form to scares caused by rapid social change, in particular in the middle class. The participants of a séance projected their own distre...

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Auteur principal: Margotti, Marta 1963- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Italien
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Publié: Morcelliana [2019]
Dans: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Année: 2019, Volume: 85, Numéro: 2, Pages: 736-750
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Italie / Mouvement social / Émeutes / Classe moyenne / Spiritisme / Irrationalité / Psychologie / Instabilité / Internationalité / Histoire 1850-1920
RelBib Classification:AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux
CB Spiritualité chrétienne
KBJ Italie
ZB Sociologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Social Change
B social revolutions
B Spirits
B irrazionalismo
B rivoluzione sociale
B Scienza
B Science
B Social revolution
B Spiritualism
B Ghosts
B Apparitions
B Irrationalism
B psicologia sociale
B Social Psychology
B Spiritismo
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Résumé:The paper explores the role played by some spirit circles and journals in Italy during the second half of the 19th century. Spirit conjuring and seeing ghosts gave form to scares caused by rapid social change, in particular in the middle class. The participants of a séance projected their own distress on apparitions representing fears of social revolution and hope of peace as a gift from spirits. Psychical research was an answer to uncertainties caused by scientific revolution, also in Italy: science shook traditional and religious worldviews, but also showed the existence of invisible phenomena. Identities crisis caused by modern society increased a collective psychological revolution that made doubtful boundaries between thought, mind, and conscience. The paper inquires discussions and global networks of spiritualists, and addresses the issue of irrational in modern societies.
ISSN:2611-8742
Contient:Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni