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John Bovee Dods
1795–1872
A restless 19th-century thinker, preacher, and lecturer, this American writer moved from Universalist sermons into the strange borderlands of mesmerism, spiritualism, and what he called “electrical psychology.” His books offer a vivid glimpse of an era when religion, science, and the supernatural were often part of the same conversation.
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Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation
by John Bovee Dods
About the author
Born on September 26, 1795, John Bovee Dods was an American author and lecturer whose career took several unusual turns. Early in life he worked as a Universalist minister and published religious works including Twenty-Four Short Sermons on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation and Thirty Short Sermons.
He later became known for writing and speaking about mesmerism, spiritualism, and the mind. Among his best-known books are Six Lectures on the Philosophy of Mesmerism and The Philosophy of Electrical Psychology, works that placed him among the more curious and experimental popular thinkers of the mid-1800s.
Dods died on March 21, 1872. Today he is remembered less as a mainstream philosopher than as a fascinating figure from a period when new religious ideas, popular science, and early psychology often overlapped.