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Periodical: Revista Espirita [Rio de Janeiro]

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Revista Espirita.
Publicao mensal de Estudos Psychologicos . Feita sob os Auspicios de Alguns Espiritas.
1875--1875 Monthly
Corte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Language: Portuguese.
Editor: Dr. Antonio da Silva Netto.
1/1, January 1875.
32 pp. Six issues only.

This was the organ of the Sociedade de Estudos Espiriticos -- Grupo Confucio, of which Antonio da Silva Netto (1836-1905), a homeopath physician, was vice-president. The journal explicitly patterned itself after Allan Kardec's Revue Spirite, from which it copied freely, and opposed the "mystifications" of J.-B. Roustaing's deviations. The journal also, unusually, devoted space to magnetism and somnambulism and to mythology and popular legends. This was the second spiritualist journal in Brazil, after Echo d'Alem Tumulo. Noted in Augusto Victorino Alves Sacramento Blake, Diccionario Bibliographico Brazeiro (1883), 317, and in Spiritual Scientist, 4/20 (July 20, 1876): 238. A journal of the same name in Rio de Janeiro was being published in 1904, but it was not a continuation of this journal.

Other Sources:
Issues:Revista Espirita Rio De Janeiro V1 N1 Jan 1875
Revista Espirita Rio De Janeiro V1 N2 Feb 1875
Revista Espirita Rio De Janeiro V1 N3 Mar 1875
Revista Espirita Rio De Janeiro V1 N4 Apr 1875
Revista Espirita Rio De Janeiro V1 N5 May 1875
Revista Espirita Rio De Janeiro V1 N6 Jun 1875
Claude-Generated Themes:   This nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro Revista Espírita is a Kardecist review in the direct lineage of Allan Kardec's Revue Spirite, and its pages are almost wholly given over to mediumship and spirit doctrine: benevolent and malevolent spirits who influence the living, inspiration in the affairs of daily life, and a running polemic against the medieval imagination of witches and maleficia. A reference to the Baron Kirkup places it within the transatlantic Spiritist network of its day. Beneath the doctrine lie the older strata from which Spiritism grew — magnetic somnambulism and a measured engagement with Gall's phrenology — making the paper a clear window onto the mesmerism-to-Spiritism transition as it played out in Brazil. It belongs with the Kardecist current rather than Anglo-American Spiritualism.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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