Spiritualism may refer to:
Religion
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Spiritualism (beliefs), the belief that spirits of the dead can communicate with the living
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Spiritualism (movement)
Spiritualism is a social religious Social movement, movement primarily popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries according to which an individual's Afterlife, awareness persists after death and may be Séance, contacted by the liv ...
, a 19th and 20th century religious movement postulating the belief that spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.
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Spiritual church movement
The spiritual church movement is an informal name for a group of loosely allied and also independent Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations that have in common that they have been historically based in the African American communit ...
, a religious movement with historically African American membership and Christian forms of worship that developed in the United States in the wake of the expulsion of black members from primarily white Spiritualist denominations
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Espiritismo, a cultural variation on Spiritism and Spiritualism, popular in Latin American nations
Philosophy
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Spiritualism (philosophy), the idea that there exists an immaterial reality that is beyond the reach of the senses
See also
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Spiritism (disambiguation)
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Spirituality
The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape o ...
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