Considerations from the Discourse Is spiritism a Religion? by Allan Kardec
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This article is the result of a structural analysis of the Discourse entitled Is Spiritism a Religion?, pronounced by Allan Kardec on December 1, 1868, and published in the Spiritist Review - Journal of Psychological Studies, in December of the same year. It analyzes what one of the main theorists of mediumship understood by communion of thought and by religion, as well as the reasons that led him to identify Spiritism — the doctrine he published based on the supposed and diverse messages he received from the spirit world — as a religion in the philosophical sense, whereas before he had identified it almost exclusively as a science and philosophical doctrine and not as a religion. It concludes that, for Kardec, Spiritism could be accepted by anyone, regardless of their religious affiliation, and should always remain consistent with scientific development.
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