Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult - Hardcover

Cormack, Raphael

 
9780393881103: Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393881105 ISBN 13: 9780393881103
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered invisible forces of electricity and magnetism determined the world of science, unseen powers commanded an unknown realm of human potentialDrawing on untapped sources in Arabic in addition to European ones, Raphael Cormack follows two of the most unusual and charismatic figures of this age: Tahra Bey, who took 1920s Paris by storm in the role of a missionary from the mystical East; and Dr. Dahesh, who transformed Western science to create a panreligious faith of his own in Lebanon. Traveling between Paris, New York, and Beirut while guiding esoteric apprenticeships among miracle-working mystics in Egypt and Istanbul, these men reflected the desires and anxieties of a troubled age. As Cormack demonstrates, these forgotten holy men, who embodied the allure of the unexplained in a world of dramatic change, intuitively speak to our unsettling world today

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Raphael Cormack is an award-winning editor, translator, and writer. The author of Midnight in Cairo, Cormack is assistant professor of modern languages and cultures at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393881105
ISBN 13 
9780393881103
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
292
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