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Honorable Mention, 2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards in the Religion Category
Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast-Best Regional Nonfiction Category
From 1776 to 1914, an amazing collection of prophets, mediums, sects, cults, utopian communities, and spiritual leaders arose in Upstate New York. Along with the best k ...more
Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast-Best Regional Nonfiction Category
From 1776 to 1914, an amazing collection of prophets, mediums, sects, cults, utopian communities, and spiritual leaders arose in Upstate New York. Along with the best k ...more
Paperback, 386 pages
Published
June 1st 2015
by Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
(first published March 6th 2015)
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I thought I knew a lot about the mystical history of upstate New York but this book was full of things I had never read about before. This part of New York is the birthplace or, in some cases, a nursery for much of the craziness in 19th Century America...Mormonism Spiritualism, Millerism. Godwin's book goes much further though and traces its influence on Theosophy, the Arts and Crafts movement in America, and many of the great progressive causes that transformed America -- feminism, abolitionism
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Oct 26, 2016
Mustafa Al-Laylah
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philosophia,
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As with Godwin's other works "Upstate Cauldron" provides a superb insight into the hidden forces which have shaped a given time, region, or group. In this instance he dives into the wonderfully heterodox history of New York state. This volume paired with Th. Metzger's "Select Strange And Sacred Sites: The Ziggurat Guide To Western New York" and Peter Lamborn Wilson's "riverpeople" has about convinced me to move!
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