Spiritism

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Spiritism may refer to:

  • Espiritismo, Latin America and Caribbean belief that evolved and less evolved spirits can affect health, luck and other aspects of human life
  • Kardecist spiritism, a Latin American new religious movement originally established in mid-19th century France
  • Spiritism (book), 1885 book by German philosopher Eduard von Hartmann
  • Spiritualism, social religious movement primarily popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • Spiritualism (beliefs), metaphysical belief that the world is made up of at least two fundamental substances, matter and spirit
  • Spiritualism (philosophy), a doctrine that that spirit exists distinct from matter, in opposition to materialism

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