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T1 Searching for Summerland: Spiritualist Women, Edenic Nostalgia, and Eco-Utopian Communalism in the Nineteenth Century
T2 En busca de Summerland: mujeres espiritistas, nostalgia edénica y comunas eco-utópicas en el siglo XIX
A1 Contreras Ameduri, Clara
K1 Spiritualism
K1 Utopianism
K1 Communalism
K1 Ecofeminism
K1 Vegetarianism
AB This article concentrates on the work of women connected to the Occult revival, examiningnarratives of interspecies harmony so as to suggest an interpretation of spiritualist communesas possibly proto-ecofeminist spaces. In order to do so, focus is first placed on how the notionof Summerland, or the spiritualist afterlife, inspired the development of anti-hierarchicalcosmologies that would sustain reformist activism in spiritualist discourse. The utopianovertones of Spiritualism are traced back to the syncretic roots of the movement, which drewstrongly on the desire to recover a lost Edenic bond between humans and nature. In theseways, by means of female leadership, vegetarianism, and agrarian self-sufficiency, occultistcommunal life developed a unique form of Utopianism, one which combined esoteric beliefswith a desire to reach the anti-industrialist Paradise announced by the spirits.
PB Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/43257
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 07-nov-2025