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Spiritism

Hi, Shaqspeare! Could you help me translating the following text to Polish, in order to create the article "Spirytizm" (or something like this) in your mother-tongue? It's an abstract of the wordy English one:

Spiritism is a philosophical doctrine established in France in the mid 19th Century by the french educator Denizard Rivail , under the pseudonym Allan Kardec. The term was coined by him as the specific name of the doctrine he was about to publish but, given the fact that the word was created from roots taken from the common language , it was soon incorporated into the normal use and has been used to name other doctrines as well.

In 1855, Denizard Rivail, started investigating a quite common phenomenon at the time, the "spinning tables" or "talking boards"', on which tables and objects in general seemed to become filled with a strange vitality. After two years dedicated to research, he didn't consider the obvious frauds that he came across with a sufficient motive to generalize that all such occurrences were fallacies or charlatanisms. Personally convinced of the reality of the phenomenon, which he considered essentially real, despite the charlatanry, and of the possibility of it been caused by spirits of dead people, Rivail made a step ahead: instead of dedicating the rest of his life to "prove scientifically" the occurrence of such phenomena, Kardec tried to extract of the possibility, that he embraced, of the spiritual or mediunic explanation for it, something useful for humanity.

His strong humanistic background, built during his years as student and supporter of the Swiss educator Pestalozzi, dear disciple of Rousseau, couldn't confine him to a merely naturalist research. The necessity of giving some support to the human spirituality in times of growing development of science and clear decline of religions inspired Kardec to create a new form of looking at the reality that put together, in a ponderate way, the rising Science and the decadent Religion, mediated by the philosophical rationality. This way, Kardec used the scientific empiricism to investigate the phenomena, the philosophical rationality to talk to what were presumably spirits, as well as to analyze their propositions, and looked for a way of extracting from these dialogs social and ethical consequences, useful to men. That was the origin of the Spiritism, organized in the first version of "The Spirits' Book", in 18 April of 1857.

Moreover, the two main characteristics of Spiritism are:

The proposal of providing access to knowledge for all people, instead of the hermetic way philosophical and scientific knowledge have being produced since that time; Human relationship with the Spiritual didn't need any institutional mediation. A natural spirituality would be enough and more appropriate for human realisation. Many well educated people from Europe and the United States gradually embraced Spiritism as a logical explanation of reality , including themes related to transcendence, as God and afterlife. Thousands of spiritist societies were created in both continents, and the spiritist principles were so much disseminated in some countries that Spiritism was cogitated to be part of regular school and college programmes in Europe. However, with the ascension of totalitarian regimes in many European nations, a strong repression took place in the whole continent over spiritist and many other philosophical and political movements. The World Wars, in the first half of 20th century were the final hit for the spiritist movement in most of Europe. In South America , however, the work of a few dedicated preachers managed to achieve a solid foundation, althought Spiritism has changed into a considerably more religious and mystical doctrine in these new lands. Such relocation ocurred more succesfully in Brazil , where more than 4 million people declare themselves "Kardecist spiritists", according to the last IBGE census data, which makes Brazil the largest Spiritist country in the world. Spiritism has influenced in Brazil syncretisms like Umbanda, Christian Rationalism, Union of the Vegetal and Valley of Dawn. Arges 12:22, 30 Março 2006 (UTC)