Spiritualism vs Spiritism - What's the difference?
spiritualism | spiritism |
A philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
A belief that the dead communicate with the living through a medium having special powers.
* R. H. Hutton
The quality or state of being spiritual.
a philosophical doctrine akin to Spiritualism, established in France in the mid nineteenth century
As nouns the difference between spiritualism and spiritism
is that spiritualism is a philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness while spiritism is spiritualism.spiritualism
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Noun
(-)- What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
