Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture

by David J. Hess

Book Overview

Brazilian Spiritism (espiritismo, kardecismo) is an important middle-class religious movement whose followers believe in communication with the dead via spirit mediums and in healing illnesses by means of spiritual therapies. Unlike Anglo-Saxon Spiritualists, Brazilian Spiritualists count among their number a well-developed and institutionalized intellectual elite that has reinterpreted northern hemisphere parapsychology and developed its own alternative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271033673
• ISBN13: 9780271033679
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"