Spiritism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/12/2018

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Spiritism


00:01:16 1 Origins
00:02:09 1.1 Swedenborg
00:03:20 1.2 Fox sisters
00:04:46 1.3 Talking boards
00:05:12 1.4 Franz Mesmer
00:05:50 2 Difference from spiritualism
00:06:45 3 Beliefs
00:06:54 3.1 Spiritist Codification
00:08:18 3.2 Fundamental principles
00:11:38 3.3 Basic tenets
00:12:34 3.4 Spiritist views of Jesus
00:13:18 3.5 Mediumship
00:13:59 4 Spiritist practice
00:14:24 4.1 Meetings
00:15:31 4.2 Organization
00:16:48 5 Geographic distribution
00:18:41 6 Criticisms
00:18:50 6.1 Before World War I
00:19:47 6.2 Interwar period
00:20:27 6.3 Post–World War II
00:21:34 7 Chico Xavier
00:22:33 8 In popular culture
00:22:47 8.1 Films
00:23:24 8.2 Soap operas
00:25:03 9 See also



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Spiritism is a spiritualistic philosophy and religion codified in the 19th century by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the pen name Allan Kardec; it proposed the study of "the nature, origin, and destiny of spirits, and their relation with the corporeal world".Spiritism soon spread to other countries, having today 35 countries represented in the International Spiritist Council.Spiritism postulates that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies for several necessary incarnations to attain moral and intellectual improvement. It also asserts that spirits, through passive or active mediumship, may have beneficent or malevolent influence on the physical world.The term first appeared in Kardec's book, The Spirits Book, which sought to distinguish Spiritism from spiritualism.Spiritism has influenced a social movement of healing centers, charity institutions and hospitals involving millions of people in dozens of countries, with the greatest number of adherents in Brazil.
Spiritism was also very influential in the new Vietnamese religion called Cao Đài or Caodaism, born in 1926 after three spirit mediums received messages that identified Allan Kardec as a prophet of a new universal religion.