Sentence examples for spiritism from inspiring English sources

Umbanda is a blend of traditional Afro-Brazilian religions with the French theoryof Spiritism.

Her curiosity about the spiritual realm soon developed into a lifelong interest in spiritism, theosophy and anthroposophy.

So successful has the movement been in Brazil that the French founder of spiritism, Allan Kardec, has been pictured on Brazilian stamps.

Brazil has increasing numbers of adherents to Eastern Orthodoxy, Buddhism, Shintō, Islam, and other religions, all of which together are about numerically equal to those practicing a form of spiritualism, or spiritism, that is based on the 19th-century teachings of the French medium Allan Kardec.

It had its greatest success in France and Brazil, where it was known as spiritism and incorporated the idea of reincarnation.

The New Yorker, December 2 , 1991P. 116 Umbanda is a blend of traditional Afro-Brazilian religions with the French theoryof Spiritism.

By Alma Guillermoprieto The New Yorker, December 2 , 1991P. 116 Umbanda is a blend of traditional Afro-Brazilian religions with the French theoryof Spiritism.

Venezuelans' fascination with such things has a foundation in spiritism, sorcery, and syncretic faiths.

Its manifestations included Theosophy, Spiritism, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, Martinism, and Kabbalism — elaborations of arcane rituals that had been cast aside in a secular, materialist age.