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Albanese, Catherine. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

—–.  A Republic of Mind & Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Andersson, Rani-Henrik. The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Bender, Courtney: The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Boyer, Paul & Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Butler, John. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Cheroux, Clement, et al., eds. The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Cook, James. The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.  

Godbeer, Richard. The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

—–. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Kaplan, Louis. The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer. St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987.

Kripal, Jeff. Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Leja, Michael. Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Moore, R. Laurence. In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Santino, Jack, ed. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Sconce, Jeffrey. Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

Underhill, Leah. The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism. New York: Arno Press, 1976. (also available online)

Weisberg, Barbara. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.