Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling

Cathy Gutierrez, Ph.D. (2000) is a Professor of Religion at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, USA. She has published in Spiritualism and related esoteric worldviews in the nineteenth century as well as in millennialism and emergent religions. Her most recent work is a monograph, Plato’s Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance (Oxford UP, 2011).Contributors to the volume: Adam Crabtree, Mary Keller, Cathy Gutierrez, Marlene Tromp, Lynn Sharp, John Patrick Deveney, Elizabeth Lowry, Darryl V. Caterine, Waleska de Araújo Aureliano, Vânia Zikán Cardoso, Arthur Versluis, Christa Shusko, Jeremy Rapport, John Warne Monroe, Hugh Urban, Ruth Bradby, Adam Klin-Oron, Christopher Partridge, Jeffrey Kripal, Douglas E. Cowan, Michael Barkun and Catherine L. Albanese

"Paging through the contents of Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling is akin to looking over a “Who’s Who?” of the study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century interactions with discarnate beings."Michael Heyes, University of South Florida, Nova Religio, Vol. 20, No. 2