spiritualism

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spiritualism

In Allan Kardec's 1857 book The Spirits Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), in which a distinction between spiritism and spiritualism is defined.

spiritualism (countable and uncountable, plural spiritualisms)

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.
- R. H. Hutton
  What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
A belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium. Used in a broader sense than spiritism/Kardecism, in which followers specifically believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of books that contain additional moral and other teachings.
The quality or state of being spiritual.

the philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism

the belief that the dead communicate with the living through mediums

quality or state of being spiritual