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Periodical: Revista Espiritista (Barcelona)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Revista Espiritista, La.
Diario de Estudios Psicologicos / Periodico de Estudios Psicologicos.
Todos para uno y uno para todos
Other titles: Revista Espiritista de Estudios Psicologicos (1875)
1869--1875 Monthly
Barcelona, Spain.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Jose Maria Fernandez Colavida.
Publisher: Leopoldo Domenech; Hijos de Domenech.
Succeeded by: Revista de Estudios Psicologicos (name changed to, January 1876)-->Luz y Union: Revista de Estudios Psicologicos (after merger with Luz y Union in 1902)
1/1 May 1869-7/12, December 1875.
5 pesetas a year in Spain, 10 beyond. 16-32 pp.

This was the second Spanish spiritualist journal (after El Criterio Espiritista). In January 1876 the journal's name was changed to Revista de Estudios Psicologicos. Colavida (1819-1888) was an anticlerical freethinker and also the translator of Allan Kardec's works. His portrait (over the title: "Don Fernandez Colarida") appeared on the cover of the Medium and Daybreak, December 24, 1874. The Revista Espiritista as its name indicates was staunchly "spiritist" in orientation and published a biography of Kardec in its first issue. The journal carried the usual spiritist discourses on charity, avarice, virtue, education, etc., and reports of seances with Spanish mediums (usually identified only by their initials), and in the early days devoted space to magnetism as well. After 1876, with the name change to Revista de Estudios Psicologicos, the journal became more open to the panoply of "estudios psicologicos" (hypnotism, magnetism, clairvoyance, phenomena, etc.).

On the journal, see Oscar M. Garcia Rodriguez, Historia del Periodismo Espiritista en Espana; De Kardec Hasta la Guerra Civil Espanola (2006), online at http://www.ameporto.org/pt/entrevistas/oscar.pdf, and "Origenes del Periodismo Espirita en Espana," online at http://www.espiritismo.cc. Florentino Barerra, El Auto de Fe de Barcelona, 3d ed. (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Vida Infinita, 2008), 81-82 gives a brief biography of and picture of Colavida. Biblioteca Nacional de Espana; Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Espanola.

Issues:Revista Espiritista V1 1869
Revista Espiritista V2 1870
Revista Espiritista V3 1871
Revista Espiritista V4 1872
Revista Espiritista V5 1873
Revista Espiritista V6 1874
Revista Espiritista V7 1875
Revista Espiritista V8 1876
Revista Espiritista V9 1877
Revista Espiritista V10 1878
Revista Espiritista V13 1881
Revista Espiritista V14 1882
Revista Espiritista V15 1883
Revista Espiritista V17 1885
Revista Espiritista V18 1886
Revista Espiritista V19 1887
Revista Espiritista V20 1888
Revista Espiritista V21 1889
Revista Espiritista V24 1892
Revista Espiritista V25 1893
Revista Espiritista V26 1894
Revista Espiritista V27 1896
Revista Espiritista V29 1897
Revista Espiritista V30 1899
Revista Espiritista V31 1900


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