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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Main Authors: Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti, Enrique Julio Romera
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Instituto de Estudos da Religião 2006-01-01
Series:Religião e Sociedade
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-85872006000100003&lng=en&tlng=en