Media in Action: From Exorcism to Mesmerism
In the Bavaria of 1775, the popular exorcist practices performed by the catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner were discredited and superseded by the enlightened, ‘scientific’ system of Franz Anton Mesmers “Animal Magnetism”. As the article argues, this replacement could happen so easily because–belo...
Main Author: | Stephan Gregory |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst
2015-09-01
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Series: | communication +1 |
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Online Access: | http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol4/iss1/3 |
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