Книга: John Edmonds «Spiritualism»

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• Spiritualism — • The term has been frequently used to denote the belief in the possibility of communication with disembodied spirits, and the various devices employed to realize this belief in practice Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Spiritualism… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• spiritualism — SPIRITUALÍSM s.n. Doctrină filozofică, opusă materialismului, care consideră că factorul de bază al Universului este spiritul (materia fiind un simplu produs al spiritului) sau că spiritul există independent de materie. v. idealism. [pr.: tu a ]… …   Dicționar Român

• Spiritualism — Spir it*u*al*ism, n. 1. The quality or state of being spiritual. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physiol.) The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul that what is called the external world is either a succession… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• spiritualism — 1796, “advocacy of a spiritual view,” from SPIRITUAL (Cf. spiritual) + ISM (Cf. ism). Table rapping sense is from 1853 …   Etymology dictionary

• spiritualism — ► NOUN ▪ a system of belief and practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums. DERIVATIVES spiritualist noun spiritualistic adjective …   English terms dictionary

• spiritualism — [spir′icho͞o əliz΄əm] n. ☆ 1. a) the belief that the dead survive as spirits that can communicate with the living, esp. with the help of a third party (medium) b) any practice arising from this belief 2. the philosophical doctrine that all… …   English World dictionary