1) New religious movement 
Spiritism is a Christian doctrine codified in the 19th century by the French educator Allan Kardec. Spiritism soon spread to other countries, having today 35 countries represented in the International Spiritist Council. The first appearance of the term occurred in French literature with the publication of the The Spirits` Book. In this book, Kard....
• (n.) Spiritualsm.
(from the article `religion, philosophy of`) ...they possess because of mana—a power or force somewhat similar to the scientific concept of energy—that they embody. Animism becomes more ...
See spiritualism.
See spiritualism.
Spir'it·ism noun Spiritualsm. 
1. Doctrine that ancestral or other spirits can communicate with man; also the practice of contacting them. 2. Belief in the existence of conscious, voluntary beings other than of the organic, corporeal type represented by animals and man, such as souls connected with inorganic Nature, disembodied nature spirits, manes or ancestral spirits, demons....