spiritualism

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Gef also caught the attention of adherents to Spiritualism, a then-popular movement that claimed humans could communicate with the spirit world through mediums and ghosts.

From National Geographic • Sep. 19, 2023

Spiritualism may have spurred her archaeological patronage, just as it motivated investigations at other famous sites, especially Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2021

Practitioners of Spiritualism even claimed to communicate with the dead, using séances and mysterious rapping sounds from table tops.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

He was raised as a Baptist but now defines his religion as Spiritualism, a belief emphasizing reincarnation and communication with the spirits of the dead.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2014

Instead, it is more likely that of the roughly twenty-five million people living in the United States in the early 1850s, more than a million were practicing Spiritualism of some kind.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock