Tag: Cercle Harmonique

  • New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists Religion Dispatches 2016-09-20 Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor of History University of Colorado “Ladder of Progress,” a drawing added to the archive of the Cercle Harmonique by René Grandjean, the circle’s first archivist. Emily Clark’s new work, A Luminous Brotherhood, is an extensive study of a subject that has weirdly…

  • In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction.