Word: spiritist
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...past several years. Whereas Brazil was once an almost entirely Catholic nation, only 74% of Brazilians today admit allegiance to Rome, with large numbers, especially the urban poor, having defected to Protestant Evangelical sects. Many more water down their Catholicism with dashes of African religions such as Candomble or spiritist beliefs such as Kardecism. Only recently has the decrease in Catholic affiliation seemingly leveled...
...Spiritist rites run the gamut from sanitized middle-class meetings with benches set out for tourists, to clandestine nightlong orgies in forest grottos. Whatever the style, all groups believe in a family of "spirits" or orixas, who usually resemble Christian saints. Thus lemanjá, the sea goddess, is identified with the Virgin Mary and Oxóssi with St. Sebastian...
Victory for Yemanjá. Instead of merely condemning spiritism, Archbishop Câmara has launched a campaign to expose the charlatanism of the spiritist leaders and to draw their followers into church by holding Masses in honor of their most popular saints, notably St. George and St. Sebastian. After painstaking studies of prestidigitation and stage music, Rio's Marist Brothers put on a series of public shows during the past year to duplicate the tricks by which the spiritist babalaôs hoodwink the gullible. Such sound showmanship has had some success...
Near Lymington, England, Dr. William Teasdale Wilson, 79-year-old spiritist, sat dead in his chair for a week. His wife thought he was in a trance...
Rosicrucian or spiritist or whatnot, Governor Johnston had to deal this week with the petition of Representative Kight and colleagues to investigate himself...