Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism
The paper analyses from an anthropological perspective how Brazilian Spiritism resignifies the current notions of life and death, comparing the notion of reincarnation with the Christian and Catholic notion of purgatory. The search for understanding of the processes of identity construction in this...
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Instituto de Estudos da Religião
2006-01-01
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| author | Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti Enrique Julio Romera |
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| description | The paper analyses from an anthropological perspective how Brazilian Spiritism resignifies the current notions of life and death, comparing the notion of reincarnation with the Christian and Catholic notion of purgatory. The search for understanding of the processes of identity construction in this religious system leads to the examination of the notions of reincarnation, karma, evolution, mediumship and probation, which are central to Kardecian cosmology. With this active set of notions, Spiritism proposes a rich set of perspectives about the self, and simultaneously graduates and softens the otherness of death. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f6e037fd5214e0ab59ff7006e97710c2022-12-21T17:15:20ZspaInstituto de Estudos da ReligiãoReligião e Sociedade0100-85872006-01-011seS0100-85872006000100003Life and death in Kardecist SpiritismMaria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti0Enrique Julio RomeraFederal University of Rio de JaneiroThe paper analyses from an anthropological perspective how Brazilian Spiritism resignifies the current notions of life and death, comparing the notion of reincarnation with the Christian and Catholic notion of purgatory. The search for understanding of the processes of identity construction in this religious system leads to the examination of the notions of reincarnation, karma, evolution, mediumship and probation, which are central to Kardecian cosmology. With this active set of notions, Spiritism proposes a rich set of perspectives about the self, and simultaneously graduates and softens the otherness of death.http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-85872006000100003&lng=en&tlng=enEspiritismoreencarnaçãopessoaidentidadealteridade |
| spellingShingle | Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti Enrique Julio Romera Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism Religião e Sociedade Espiritismo reencarnação pessoa identidade alteridade |
| title | Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism |
| title_full | Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism |
| title_fullStr | Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism |
| title_short | Life and death in Kardecist Spiritism |
| title_sort | life and death in kardecist spiritism |
| topic | Espiritismo reencarnação pessoa identidade alteridade |
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