{"product_id":"modern-occultism-in-late-imperial-julia-mannherz-9780875804620","title":"Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history of occult thought and practice from its origins in private salons to its popularity in turn-of-the-century mass culture. In lucid prose, Julia Mannherz examines the ferocious public debates of the 1870s on higher dimensional mathematics and the workings of seance phenomena, discusses the world of cheap instruction manuals and popular occult journals, and looks at haunted houses, which brought together the rural settings and the urban masses that obsessed over them. In addition, Mannherz looks at reactions of Russian Orthodox theologians to the occult.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its prominence, the role of the occult in turn-of-the-century Russian culture has been largely ignored, if not actively written out of histories of the modern state. For specialists and students of Russian history, culture, and science, as well as those generally interested in the occult, Mannherz's fascinating study remedies this gap and returns the occult to its rightful place in the popular imagination of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Mannherz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0875804624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780875804620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Julia Mannherz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44063454920959,"sku":"9780875804620","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98444561-bc5d-4902-b534-990155672ad3.jpg?v=1685389650","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modern-occultism-in-late-imperial-julia-mannherz-9780875804620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}