spiritism
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He was one of the first celebrities to do spiritism.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2021
The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil's fastest-growing cult: "spiritism."
From Time Magazine Archive
You have confused African religious rites, such as Quimbanda and Umbanda, which were brought by the slaves, with the Christian religion of spiritism.
From Time Magazine Archive
He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness."
From Time Magazine Archive
The dogmatism which shuts the door squarely in the face of spiritism is as unreasonable, as unscientific, as the credulity which opens the door wide and accepts everything which comes through.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins
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