spiritist

Examples

• All

• The ataques de nervios was typically treated as a "calling" to develop spiritist-mediumistic faculties.

  Academic text (1994)

• Quite to the contrary, the Afro-Brazilian Spiritism discussed here is generally linked to the maintenance of subalternity rather than subjecthood at the grassroots, and the spiritist associations are described as anything but civil associations.

  Academic text (1999)

• The African spiritist religions are discussed only briefly here, not because they are unimportant to the development of democracy in several Caribbean and South American countries, but because, as far as I am aware, there has been no attempt to extend the Tocquevillian parallel to them.

  Academic text (1999)

• The spiritist community gathers every month to hold séances in hopes of communicating with the deceased.

• The spiritist practices often involve rituals aimed at inviting the spirits of the dead to share their messages.

Synonyms

S

spiritualist

vsspiritist

1 8.6

Relating to the belief that the spirits of the dead can talk to the living

is tied to a specific movement and its practices rather than general belief

S

spiritualistic

vsspiritist

8.2

Beliefs and practices that try to contact spirits or the dead

focuses on actual practices of contacting the dead rather than general traits

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology