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Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism [PDF]

Religião e Sociedade, 2006
The paper analyses from an anthropological perspective how Brazilian Spiritism resignifies the current notions of life and death, comparing the notion of reincarnation with the Christian and Catholic notion of purgatory.
Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti, Enrique Julio Romera   +1 more
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Spiritism: Definition, EVol.ution, Ways and Criticism [PDF]

Journal of Islamic Studies, 2013
This research deals with the issue of séance, which has spread amongst educated people as well as uneducated ones in our Arab and Islamic societies. The issue belongs to the realm of the unseen. Such an alien issue represents significant aberration from
Said Ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Ali Al-Afandy
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Who is the Audience for Contemporary Spiritism?

, 2014
In this video Dr Dave Webster interviews Sara Duppils about contemporary spiritism. He asks whether those who are interested are members of a dedicated sub-culture, or are from broader social ...
Webster, David R
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Spiritism in Brazil: History and Presence [PDF]

, 2021
The present master's thesis deals with the characteristics and development of spiritism in Brazil. It presents the main ideas and a brief overview of the precursors of the spiritist movement.
Puskásová, Lucie
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Professors, Charlatans, and Spiritists: The Stage Hypnotist in Late Nineteenth-Century English Literature

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2020
In this paper I will explore the stereotype of the stage hypnotist in fiction literature through the analysis of the novellas Professor Fargo (1874) by Henry James (1843-1916) and Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question (1890) by Hall Caine (1853-1931 ...
Juan Marcos Bonet Safont
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Christus verus Luciferus, Demon est Deus Inversus

Temenos, 2021
This article focuses on a Spiritism board, Yhteyslauta, designed in the mid-1970s by occultist neo-Nazi Pekka Siitoin. The board represents an unexplored occult subchapter of Finnish gaming culture and exhibits the Finnish esoteric tradition. In addition
Tero Pasanen Pasanen
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The Book as a Cultural Artifact in Brazilian Spiritism [PDF]

Methexis
Spiritism is a religious doctrine of Christian spiritualism that emerged in the 19th century in France, but which achieved great expansion and consolidation in Brazil, becoming one of the main religious expressions in the country.
André Bueno
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O Centro Espírita Redemptor e o tratamento de doença mental, 1910-1921 The Centro Espírita Redemptor and the treatment of mental illness, 1910-1921

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2012
O espiritismo é uma doutrina religiosa que surgiu na França durante o século XIX por meio da obra de Allan Kardec. No Brasil, assumiu certa originalidade: o espiritismo racional e científico cristão, liderado por Luiz de Mattos, foi uma de suas vertentes
André de Faria Pereira Neto, Jacqueline de Souza Amaro   +1 more
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Covert Syncretism: The Reception of South Africa’s Sangoma Practise and Spirituality by “Double Faith” in the Contexts of Christianity and of Esotericism

Open Theology, 2017
South African Bantu mediumism (of “Sangoma” type) has moved from contexts in African Traditional Religion (ATR) and rural culture into South African Christianity, especially in the African Instituted Churches (AIC), which have adopted and transformed ...
Kleinhempel Ullrich Relebogilwe
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El espiritismo y los elementos religiosos africanos y aborígenes del etnos. Su discriminación colonial y neocolonial en Cuba

Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022
The article identifies the possible geographical routes to entrance to Cuba of modern spirit beliefs during the second half of the 19th century. Exposes the Cuban international and historical-concrete conditions to the reception of modern spirit beliefs ...
Jorge Domingo Ortega Suárez, Nancy Narcisa Mercadet Portillo   +1 more
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