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Raphael Cormack

HOLY MEN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC AGE

A Global History of the Uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s



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1


Taha Hussein (trans. Sidney Glazer). The Future of Culture in Egypt. Washington D. C.: American Council of Learned Societies, 1954 [1st. Arabic edition 1938]. . 22.

         (. .),     .




2


Aldous Huxley. Miracle in Lebanon // Esquire. August 1955.




3


The Home Journal. 15 June 1850. P.2.




4


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5


       .: John Benedict Buescher. The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.




6


John Patrick Deveney. Paschal Beverly Randolph: ANineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician. SUNY Press, 1996.




7


Congressional Testimony Fortune Telling. First Session, 1926. P.33.     .




8


James Webb. The Occult Establishment. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1976. P.7.




9


Albert Schweitzer. Kultur und ethik. Munchen, 1960 (  .    . .  . . . : , 1973).




10


Ella K. Maillart. The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in aFord. London: John Murray, 2021 [1947]. P.33.




11


Henry Morgenthau. IWas Sent to Athens. Garden City, N.Y.: Doran, Doubleday & Co., 1929. P.48.




12


Pallis, A. A. The Greek Census of 1928 // The Geographical Journal. Vol. 73, no. 6, 1929. P.547.




13


The Scotsman. 11 December, 1922. P.8; Dimitra Gianulli. American philanthropy in the Near East: Relief to the Ottoman Greek refugees, 19221923, PhD Dissertation, Kent State University, 1992. P.173174; The Times of London. 11 January 1923. P.12.




14


The Times. 2February 1923. P.11.   : Bruce Clark. Twice aStranger. P.142143.




15


He Charauge tou anthropismou. 10 August 1923. P.78.




16


He Charauge tou Anthropismou. 18 April 1923. P.5.




17


He Charauge tou Anthropismou. 3January 1921. P.1.




18


Sphaira. 16 Juny 1923. P.3.




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21


Harry Boddington. The University of Spiritualism. London: Psychic Book Club, 1946. P.263.




22


He Charauge tou anthropismou.30 April 1923. P.45.




23


Edward William Lane. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. London: Charles Knight, 1836. P.310.




24


    : Reynolds Miscellany. 21 December 1850. P.341; W. G. Osborne. The Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh. London: Henry Colburn, 1840. P.129138.




25


Popular Science Monthly. June 1893. P.192196; Current Literature: AMagazine of Record and Review. April 1892. P.548.




26


       .    ,    1887, 1897, 1900, 1901   1903,  1900   .        ,   .




27


Zabel Yessayan (trans. Jennifer Manoukian). The Gardens of Silihdar. Boston: Aiwa Press, 2014. P.28.




28


?zg?r T?resay. Between Science and Religion: Spiritism in the Ottoman Empire (1850s-1910s) // Studia Islamica 113, no. 2 (2018). P.166200; Hasan Merzuk Cinlerle muhabere yahud ispiritizm, fakirizm, manyatizm: tarifi, tarihi, malum?t-i umumiye. Istanbul, Necm-i Istikbal Matbaasi, 1912.




29


  .: Jamanak, 6 June 1926. P.1.




30


Arnold Toynbee and Great Britain Foreign Office. The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1916. P.165.




31


Deniz D?lek-Sever (2017). Policing the suspects: Ottoman Greeks and Armenians in Istanbul, 19141918 // Middle Eastern Studies, 53:4. P.533550.




32


         1926     Jamanak,     1936 (  )    Halkim Sesi.




33


Marjorie Housepian Dobkin. Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of aCity. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988 [1966]. P.103.




34


Sona Seferian. Translators-Enlighteners of Smyrna // Hovannisian ed. Armenian Smyrna/Izmir. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2012. P.158165.




35


Halkim Sesi. 3August 1936. P.2 (translated by Elif Su Isik).




36


Dobkin. Smyrna 1922. P.132.




37


Dobkin. Smyrna 1922. P.150.




38


The Irish Times. 18 September 1922. P.5.




39


Los Angeles Times. 18 September 1922. P.1.




40


The Times. 5October 1922. P.7.      Canterbury Diocesan Gazette.




41


     Hairenik 20 1930.   -    ,       (,  al-Lata'if al-Musawwara 31 1927). ,     ,    ,           1920.        Ruz al-Yusuf. 1927, no. 105. P.13.




42


     1923,           . . Laurent Wirth. Le Madeleine et Le Papillon. Paris: Armand Colin, 2022. P.246.




43


Charles Aznavour. Le Temps des Avants. Paris: Flammarion, 2003. P.32; Charles Aznavour. Yesterday WhenI Was Young. London: W. H. Allen, 1979. P.3.




44


Teotig, Amenun taretsoytse: zbosali u pitani. Istanbul, 1926. P.683 (translated by Jennifer Manoukian).          Armenian Life 1926.


