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Laure Montarry

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Learning to become a medium in English spiritualism. An example of ethnography from the “inside”

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique October 1, 2026 Laure Montarry

This article presents the ethnographic method I used for my anthropological study of the learning mechanisms of contemporary English spiritualist mediumship. More specifically, I show how this method enabled me to gain better access to certain processes in the construction of the “belief” of my informants, in particular the belief in a “spiritual interiority”, i.e., “a soul”. I show that my own...