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spir·it·ism  (spr-tzm)
n.
1. The belief that the dead communicate with the living; spiritualism.
2. The practices or doctrines of those holding such a belief.
spirit·ist n.
spirit·istic adj.
spiritism [ˈspɪrɪˌtɪzəm]
n
(Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) a less common word for spiritualism
spiritist  n
spiritistic  adj
spiritism
spiritualism.
See also: Spirits and Spiritualism
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Noun1.spiritism - concern with things of the spirit
otherworldliness, spirituality, spiritualism
internality, inwardness - preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch
Translations
spiritism
n → Spiritismus m
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After Hilkiah the high priest discovers the Book of Covenant (2 Kings 22:8), Josiah get rids of the household gods, the idols, the mediums and spiritists, pagan priests and temples.
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Betteredge, the butler-narrator in Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, consults Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe much in the way that New Age spiritists consult the I-Ching, as a guide to future actions in difficult circumstances.
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In April 2003, legal representatives of Umbanda and Candomble spiritist groups sued two Christian Evangelicals for violating the "hate crime" law by distributing evangelistic tracts that allegedly disparaged Iemanja, an African deity, and for proselytizing spiritists at their annual festival in Praia Grande.
Brazil by International Religious Freedom Report
 
 
 
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