Talk:Spiritualist Church

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[edit] Proposal to Merge

Two people supported a merge of Spiritualist Church with Spiritualism, and two (myself included) opposed. It makes sense to separate the historical movement Spiritualism (1840s-1920s) from the current organization of Spiritualist Churches--the earlier movement had little organization and had a set of beliefs and practices quite different from the syncretic practices of the current churches. This page would be a good place for people familiar with current Spiritualist practice to contribute, and the Spiritualism page would be the best place for contributions for people interested in the history of the religious movement. This page does need a lot of work. Since it's about organized religion, there should be something about organizations, founding dates, memberships, etc., as well as about dogma and liturgy. Anthon.Eff 16:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that American Spiritualism was disorganised and lacked institutions, but there are many multi-volume works on the British denominations in the historic period. I shall edit and add some material on this subject, a very brief overview, but it might make more of the case for putting them back together. The article also starts almost incomprehensibly, without reference to Hydesville or the Fox Sisters? I really would advocate inclusion in the main Spiritualism article, which in turn needs to be properly crosss referenced to the wikipedia material on mediumship.

Er, why is there no Spiritualists National Union article? there was once?!

[edit] Wonewoc, Wisconsin

Wonewoc, Wisconsin has the Wonewoc Spiritualist Camp.I added this to the articleRFD 22:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

According to the guidelines (WP:EL) there are way too many external links in this article. Someone who has been putting in the links would be the best person to clean up a bit. Please read the guidelines first--they have some good suggestions. Thanks! Anthon.Eff 19:21, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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