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spiritualist movement  

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  • The spiritualist movement, centered in the Englishspeaking parts of North America and in the United Kingdom, is a loosely structured new religious movement (NRM) that emphasizes the immortality of individual spirits, contact with the spirit world through spirit mediums, and spiritual healing. Like spiritualism in the generic sense, found in various forms throughout the world, it denies the finality of death, but it also has many functions depending upon particular social conditions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Spiritualist Movement]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/spiritualist_movement

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