A team at UC Santa Barbara has created an inventory of paranormal experiences, among other extraordinary feelings, that can be studied cross-culturally.
Ellen G. White: All or Nothing?
June 30, 2021
In this review of Steve Daily s new book about the Adventist prophet, Ellen G. White: A Psychobiography
, Jonathan Butler takes us through the history of his old friend s research and how this harsh critique evolved.
[This article appears in the latest issue of the Spectrum
Steve Daily and I met in the 1980s, about forty years before he wrote
Ellen G. White: A Psychobiography, at what was then Loma Linda University-La Sierra campus. He served there as a chaplain and I taught history. I first saw him pulling on his tennis shoes in the choking humidity of a locker room by the university pool. We had both been swimming laps. He was some ten years younger than I and looked another ten years younger than that. He brought up an article I had written in
Principal Investigator
CHRISTINE FERGUSON is a Professor in English Literature at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include the books Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Angl0-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006); she is the editor of Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation (2014), a volume in Routledge’s Spiritualism 1840-1930 facsimile edition series, and, with Andrew Radford, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (forthcoming 2018). She is currently at work on a new project on the popular fiction networks and periodical culture of the Victorian occult revival.