Ann Braude teaches at the Harvard Divinity School and is co-editor of Roots of Bitterness: Documents in the Social
History of American Women.
Review
". . . Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women's creativity�spiritual as well as
political�in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement."
--Jon Butler
"Radical Spirits is a vitally important book . . . [that] has . . . influenced a generation of young scholars."
--Marie Griffith
Publisher web site, November, 2001.
Summary
An updated edition of a landmark book in the history of women's political activism and in the history of women
and religion in America.
In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women's rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand.
Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women's history.
In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses
the place of religion in interpretations of women's history in general and the women's rights movement in particular.
A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers
and students.
