Building A Better World Flashcards
What does Jenny Hazelgrove in Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars (2000) argue that Spiritualism did no do after the Victorian and Edwardian period?
Die out, it lasted long after these periods and flourished particularly in between the wars
Who does Jenny Hazelgrove in Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars (2000) argue Spiritualism gave comfort to?
Many people who had lost loved ones in WW1
What presumption do most historians have of the period between the wars?
That secularism was dominant during it
What idea does Jenny Hazelgrove in Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars (2000) challenge?
Te idea that there was a steady decline of popular religious belief in the interwar period
Why does Jenny Hazelgrove in Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars (2000) argue spiritualism was of great interest during the wars?
It was able to adopt to modern ideas, which it incorporated with traditional beliefs and superstitions
Due to declining birth-rates after WW1 what emphasis began to be placed on women?
Women as mothers, rather than wives, domestication
What does Jenny Hazelgrove in Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars (2000) argue post-Victorian spiritualism was not?
A pathological response to the late nineteenth century crisis of faith
What does Jenny Hazelgrove in Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars (2000) argue spiritualists relationship to modernity was?
It was buried in, but not undone by, modernity
What did the British consistently believe in?
Banshees, guardian angels, and haunting, namely he proof of communication between spirits and humans
What have historians previously done with British spiritualism?
Ignored it
What classes did spiritualism usually appeal to?
Working classes
When was the Panacea Society founded? And by who?
1919 by Mabel Barltrop
Why did Mabel rename herself Octavia?
She believed she was the daughter of God
How many people did the Panacea’s healing ministry reach out to?
130,000
What was the main belief of the Panacea community? And what was its main aim?
Main belief was understanding God as feminine as well as masculine
Main aim was to prepare for immortal life and Jesus’ rebirth
What is the Panacea Society an example of?
A closed and inward looking community
What question did the Panacea face about modernity?
How much to conform to the modern world and modernity
Why does Jane Shaw in Octavia, Daughter of God (2011) argue the Panacea society represented modernity itself?
The opportunities they offered to women, their theology and eclectic mixture of beliefs
What was Mabel’s chief concern about the teachings of the CofE?
Taught the salvation of the soul but not of the body
What was Mabel diagnosed with when she went into a mental hospital before her husbands death?
Melancholy and domestic worry
What role did Southcott give women in the redemption of the world?
A distinctive role as the final redeemer, because Eve had been the original cause of the fall
What was the name of the leader of the earlier movement and the Book of Revelation that inspired the Panaceans?
Joanna Southcott
What did the war give impetus to? And why?
Southcottian revival - thought this was a time of national trial and tribulation
What was a common reason for sectioning women in late 19th century?
Religious reasons