number of adepts because spiritist moviment doesn't proselytizes and is not a religious denomination as states in the article there is no current estimation for the number of spiritists in brazil the ibge estimation came from the census on religion but many spiritists do not consider themselves spiritism followers because it is not a religion another poll made by a established poll research institution in brazil shows that half of brazilian population believes in reincarnation once buddhism and hinduism are almost non existent in brazil it shows the strong influence of the spiritist doctrine and other native believes in brazil moreover in another poll rede globo mineira in the populous state of minas gerais chico xavier the most popular spiritist medium in brazil was elected the mineiro minas's citizen of the century competing against other popular celebrities like the former president juscelino kubischeck and inventor santos dumont recently epoca magazine comments an statistic of to millions of spiritists in brazil for the reasons above i'm removing the badly grounded statistics about the number of spiritists in brazil