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15:59 May 5, 2009

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Portuguese term or phrase: espírita

Não consigo achar em dicionário algum um termo em inglês que melhor se encaixa para este termo. Obrigada

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4 +2

medium / spiritual

Lidia Saragaço

4 +1

spiritist / spiritualist

Muriel FINETIN

Discussion entries: 2

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5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

medium / spiritual

Explanation:
Depende do contexto. Normalmente alguém que é espírita em termos de leitura da aura, etc., eu diria "medium" se for no sentido de alguém espirituoso eu diria "spiritual".

Lidia Saragaço
Portugal
Local time: 12:39
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

spiritist / spiritualist

Explanation:

« Spiritism is a Christian philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid-nineteenth century.

Spiritism, or French spiritualism, is based on books written by French educator Hypolite Léon Denizard Rivail under the pseudonym Allan Kardec reporting séances in which he observed a series of phenomena that could be only attributed to incorporeal intelligence (spirits). »

« The word Spiritism was eventually appropriated by non-Spiritists as a derogatory term for the various movements and religions that practiced mediumship... »

«Spiritualist Churches, however, differ from Spiritist groups or Churches (see below) in that Spiritualism as a religious denomination doesn't stress Reincarnation as a basic tenet of belief (some Spiritualists believe in Reincarnation and some don't, whereas Spiritists believe in Reincarnation as a basic tenet of their belief system)»

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritism
Reference: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espiritismo

Muriel FINETIN
France
Local time: 13:39
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