Hundreds of so-called spiritualist churches regularly engage in healing sessions, led by mystics who claim to transmit “spirit messages.” Scores of summer camps implement church programs.

The Modern Spiritualist movement dates from 1848 when the Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York produced knocking sounds that were alleged to be messages from a spirit. Spiritualists communicate ...

Elaine Caxton plays Dolly Clout in Home Front It isn’t hard to see what would have attracted people to spiritualism at a time of such crisis. The spectre of death loomed large in wartime Britain.