spiritism
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He was one of the first celebrities to do spiritism.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2021
Many of them are also among the 20 million or more devotees of spiritism, a term that embraces a spectrum of practices from witchcraft to extrasensory psychological exercises.
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
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
Thus we see that out of mythologic philosophy, as branches of the great tree itself, there grow ancientism, theistic society, spiritism, thaumaturgics, mythic tales, and religion.
From Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 by Powell, John Wesley
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