Option 2: Write a five-page review of one of the books below. The review should engage with the main claims of the book and should put those claims in conversation with at least one of the texts we read this term
Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Ted Chaing, Exhalation
Constance M. Furey, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Amy Hollwyood, Devotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and the Political Imagination
Jeffery J. Kripal, The Flip
Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World, trans. Adrian Nathan West
Linda Mercadante, Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious
Emily Ogden, Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
Eric Leigh Schmidt, Heaven’s Bride: The unprintable life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, and Madwoman
Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
