MF123 Spiritualist Church / Bonita Freeman Witthoft Collection

Authors

Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine

Files

Description

This collections consists of a series of interviews and recordings of various meetings and sessions of the Spiritualist Church in Maine and especially at Camp Etna. They were conducted by Bonita Freeman Witthoft in connection with her thesis From the Other Side of Life: Modern Spiritualism in Maine, c.1975.

Witthoft was primarily interested in fundamental religious concepts, forms of apprenticeship, acquired patterns of perception and behavior, the discipline of mediums as spokesmen for spirit guides, and on the complex act of delivering messages. Among topics covered are healing, physical versus mental mediumship, projection, trance, controls and guides, and automatism.

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

Spiritual healing and spiritualism, Seances, Maine Mediums

Disciplines

Christian Denominations and Sects | Folklore | Oral History

Size of Collection

3 items

Dates of Collection

1971-1972

Manuscript Number

MF123

Recommended Citation

Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine, "MF123 Spiritualist Church / Bonita Freeman Witthoft Collection" (2020). Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids. Number 46.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ne_findingaids/46