2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
French Protestant reformer who built Geneva into the most rigorous Reformation city-state and developed Calvinist theology — particularly the doctrine of double predestination (some are elected to salvation, others to damnation regardless of their actions) — whose influence shaped Puritanism, the Dutch Republic, Scotland, and the American colonial character.
Swiss psychologist at the University of Geneva who wrote From India to the Planet Mars (1900) — a case study of the medium Hélène Smith who produced elaborate 'Martian' language and memories of previous lives — establishing rigorous psychological analysis of mediumship and influencing Jung's methodology.