The Guardian

Jad Adams

“Monroe does not play up the humour of the situation; this is an excellently researched, scholarly look at serious-minded people seeking empirical truth for the doctrines they already believed by faith, a "science of God". With a firmer grip than most writers on his subject, Monroe puts these events into their political context, showing how psychic phenomena had a rewarding way of changing shape to reflect the preoccupations of those observing them.”

10/01/2009

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