Suggestions for Further Reading:

Belief and Practice in Metaphysics

Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. Rev. ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Albanese, Catherine L. Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977.

Bednarowski, Mary Farrell. New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Braden, Charles S. Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963.

Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Campbell, Bruce E. Ancient Wisdom Revived: A History of the Theosophical Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Carroll, Bret E. Spiritualism in Antebellum America. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Ellwood, Robert S., Jr. Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America. Chicago History of American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

_____. Theosophy: A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages. Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing, 1986.

_____, and Partin, Harry B. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988.

Fuller, Robert C. Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

George, Carol V. R. God's Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Popover of Positive Thinking. Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Godbeer, Richard. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Godwin, Joscelyn. The Theosophical Enlightenment. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Judah, J. Stillson. The History and Philosophy of the Metaphysical Movements in America. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1967.

Kerr, Howard, and Crow, Charles L., eds. The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Leventhal, Herbert. In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: Occultism and Renaissance Science in Eighteenth-Century America. New York: New York University Press, 1976.

Moore, R. Laurence. In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Parker, Gail Thain. Mind Cure in New England: From the Civil War to World War I. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1973.

Quinn, D. Michael. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987.

Shumaker, Wayne. The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.