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From Pat Deveney's database:
Religiao Espirita. This was a Kardecist spiritualist journal that emphasized the religious side of spiritism in contrast to the scientific/reform side. The journal explicitly announced "Collaboradores Diversos--da Terra e do Espaco."
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| Religao Espirita V1 N6 May 1898 | |
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Religião Espírita, a free monthly published in Rio de Janeiro in 1898, announced itself on its masthead as the 'Organ of Religious Spiritism' — the explicitly Christian, Gospel-facing wing of Brazilian Kardecism. Its pages weave New Testament epigraphs through a doctrine of love and charity, presenting Allan Kardec's codified Spiritism less as séance-room marvel than as the religion Jesus intended: communication with the departed, the immortality and moral progress of the soul, and reincarnation across successive lives. Mediumship is concrete rather than theoretical — the paper reports psychographic mediums writing in reunion — and the register is devotional, urging charity toward one's neighbour. A faint inheritance of mesmeric fluid and the occasional esoteric aside sit at the margins, but the paper belongs to the Kardecist current, whose phenomena it shares with Anglo-American Spiritualism but whose reincarnationist Christianity sets it apart. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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