spiritism

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• New agers believe they can contact angels directly via channeling or spiritism.

  Angels and Demons Are Real (2017)

• The fascination with spiritism grew in the 19th century, leading to numerous books and discussions about the afterlife.

• For a time, even supernaturalism and spiritism became popular.

  Academic text (1998)

• The talk, reported Bushnell, turned "on spiritism and modern necromancy."

  Academic text (2010)

• Wallace was also a controversial figure who was, among other things, into spiritism and a proponent of intelligent design.

  Blog text (2)

• Nevertheless, "the church has required them to give up spiritism," for it "forbids her children to have any dealings with devils."

  Academic text (2018)

• In its formal proclamations, the nineteenth-century Catholic Church condemned Spiritualism and all such divination, including mesmerism and French Spiritism.

  Academic text (2018)

• The case of Afro-Brazilian Spiritism, perhaps even more than Catholicism or Pentecostalism, demonstrates that the Tocquevillian parallel can be drawn only lightly and inexactly, if at all.

  Academic text (1999)

• This fascination with pseudoscientific phenomena progressively degenerated into a vogue for spiritism, hypnosis, and mediumism (Ellenberger 85).

  Academic text (1992)

• Many people believe in spiritism as a way to communicate with loved ones who have passed away.

Synonyms

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spiritualism

vsspiritism

1 8.4

Belief that dead people can talk to living people through a person who says they can help

includes other nonphysical entities and says they can influence the living

How Paranormal

spiritism

1 9.9

psychic communication

9.9

telepathy

33 8.7

intuition

127 5.5

spoken communication

2.9

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