CiNii 図書 - The history of the supernatural in all ages and nations

This two-volume history of the supernatural, first published in 1863, is a staggering feat: extending his work across almost a thousand pages, William Howitt attempts to describe the engagement with the supernatural in all ages and all parts of the world in order to identify a common link between them. Howitt (1792-1879), a well-known writer in his day, published over fifty books in his lifetime, some in collaboration with his wife, writer and translator Mary Howitt. His interest in the supernatural was precipitated by the untimely deaths of two sons. This first volume begins with an apology for faith in the nineteenth century and continues with spiritualist histories of Europe, the bible and apocrypha, the ancient world, the East, and Scandinavia, emphasising the persisting legacy and presence of human engagement with the supernatural in each case.

Preface
1. An apology for faith in the nineteenth century
2. Spiritualists before the American development
3. Manifestations of the supernatural in Germany continued
4. Manifestations of the supernatural in Germany continued
5. The supernatural in Switzerland and France
6. The supernatural in the Bible
7. The supernatural in the Apocrypha
8. The supernatural of the New Testament
9. The supernatural in the ancient nations
10. The supernatural in Assyria, Chaldea, and Persia
11. The supernatural of ancient Egypt
12. The supernatural in ancient India and China
13. The supernatural in ancient Scandinavia
14. The supernatural in Greece
15. The supernatural in ancient Rome
16. The same faith continues in all these nation to the present time
17. The supernatural amongst the American Indians
18. The supernatural amongst the early fathers
19. Supernatural of the Neo-Platonists
20. The supernatural of the Roman Catholic Church.

巻冊次: v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108025775

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This two-volume history of the supernatural, first published in 1863, is a staggering feat: extending his work across almost a thousand pages, William Howitt attempts to describe the engagement with the supernatural in all ages and all parts of the world in order to identify a common link between them. Howitt (1792-1879), a well-known writer in his day, published over fifty books in his lifetime, some in collaboration with his wife, writer and translator Mary Howitt. His interest in the supernatural was precipitated by the untimely deaths of two sons. Beginning with a chapter on magic and its relation to the supernatural, this second volume concentrates mainly on Christian history, detailing the spiritualist aspects of the early church, medieval heresy, the Reformation, and nineteenth-century supernatural engagement, also including pagan and neo-platonic perceptions.

1. Magic in its relation to the supernatural
2. The supernatural in the Greek and other eastern churches
3. Supernatural in the Waldensian church
4. The supernatural amongst the so-called heretics and mystics of the middle ages
5. The spiritualism of Luther and the early reformers
6. The supernatural and the Church of England
7. Present materialised condition of the Church of England and of general opinion
8. The miracles in the churchyard in Paris in 1731 and subsequently
9. The supernatural and the Church of England continued
10. Spiritualism in North America
11. Spiritualism in England
12. Opposition to new facts
13. The Philadelphian Brethren
14. Spiritualism amongst the Dissenters
15. George Fox and the Friends
16. Madame Guyon and Fenelon
17. The Prophets of the Cevennes
18. The Wesleys, Whitefield, and Fletcher of Madeley
19. Doehme, Swedenborg, and Irving
20. The Moravian Brethren or Unitas Fratrum
21. A chapter of poets
22. Miscellaneous matters
23. Conclusion.

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