spiritualist

Examples of spiritualism

spiritualism
Abstraction should not be confused with spiritualism, which is just abstraction from location.
In an age when technology and materialism seemed to have undermined religious faith, a new 'modern spiritualism' was suddenly born, and it exploded into prominence.
At the core of spiritualism as a social practice was the medium.
The failure of spiritualism may be attributed to a schism within its own defining concepts.
The discourses of spiritualism and occultism collapse the poles of this defining dichotomy by insisting that the supernatural is natural.
I will argue, however, that spiritualism violated not only the notion of stable gender identity but of identity altogether.
Thus, spiritualism necessarily entails "gender trouble," just as its attempt to combine faith and science necessarily entails epistemological confusion.
The history of spiritualism thus adds a cautionary note to those postmodern theories that see a subversive, utopian subject as a desideratum.
Later, from the mid nineteenth century, new modes came in with spiritualism and revamped more urbanised astrology and fortune-telling.
Spiritualism crossed and recrossed the boundaries between the spiritual and material world to offer this information, to provide this direct form of contact.
Perhaps to the astonishment of his opponents, he did not try to inscribe the incompatibility between materialism/ republicanism and spiritualism/monarchism in the brain.
They posited metaphysical intervention, spiritualism, imagination, and elitism as the antitheses to sweeping rationalism, simplification, and mass culture.
Suddenly the absurdities of spiritualism are not funny anymore.
Those scientists who accepted spiritualism saw their new work as continuation of their scientific research.
Spiritualism's opponents did not underrate the social threat of the movement, particularly as it regarded sexuality and marriage.
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