We Believe: The Founding of the New Jersey State Society of Spiritualists and Friends of Progress - Paperback

by Patricia A. Martinelli (Author)

This book outlines the founding of the New Jersey State Society of Spiritualists and Friends of Progress, revealing the role Spiritualism played in the lives of many people during a time of profound change in the United States. Spiritualism in the 19th century was about more than just communicating with the afterlife. A social and political movement, determined to protect the rights of the working class, believers challenged traditional structures ranging from religion to government and rocked the foundations of American life in a way that will seem very familiar to many people today.