The Occult in America is the first book to deal with the full chronological range of America's 300-year experience with the occult. Its authors examine such diverse and fascinating subjects as witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England, occult religion among eighteenth-century black slaves, nineteenth-century spiritualism, the impact of the occult on Mormonism and Christian Science, feminist perspectives on the occult, and "ultraterrestrial" UFO theories.