What's the difference between spiritism and spiritist?

Spiritism


Definition:

  • (n.) Spiritualsm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
  • (2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
  • (3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
  • (5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
  • (7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
  • (8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
  • (9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
  • (10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
  • (11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
  • (12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
  • (13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
  • (14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
  • (15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
  • (17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
  • (18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
  • (19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
  • (20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.

Spiritist


Definition:

  • (n.) A spiritualist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those who visit spiritists were found to be more likely to work outside the home, to have a low family income, to have sought help for emotional problems from mental health professionals, and to have mild symptoms of depression.
  • (2) Using data from the first community-based, epidemiological survey of Puerto Rico, this paper examines the current prevalence of use of spiritist healers by Puerto Ricans, the role of spiritism in the provision of mental health services, and the association between spiritism and psychiatric disorders and symptoms.
  • (3) The outcome ratings of spiritists' patients were significantly better than those of therapists', but this difference could be accounted for by the higher expectations of the spiritists' patients.
  • (4) The spiritists' patients reported significantly higher expectations, especially for mood and feeling complaints.
  • (5) Zoellner's use of Helmholtz's arguments to advance and defend his spiritist views occasioned strong criticism of Helmholtz, affected careers and reputations of scholars in Berlin and Leipzig, and caused enduring controversy over the credibility of Helmholtz's empiricist theory of space perception.
  • (6) The practical import of spiritist psychotherapy for community health is examined under the following rubrics: (1) spiritism as a treatment of choice, (2) implications of spiritist procedures for psychiatric treatment, and (3) interrelations between spiritists and community health programs.
  • (7) This paper seeks to explore the phenomenon of possession trance in the ritual context from still another tack, complementary to the studies cited above, by analyzing it as an active and perhaps necessary component in the development of significant personal relationships basic to the organization and goals of some religous cults.-1 This view has been suggested by data gathered in study of social process in Puerto Rican Spiritist cults-2 which examined the relationship between patterns of cult social organization and the cult execution of a culturally patterned psychotherapeutic process for committed adherents whose emotional problems are diagnosed by cult headers as manifestations of developing "faculties" for communication with the spirit world-3 (see Koss; Rogler and Hollingshead, 1965, pp.
  • (8) In discussing spiritist psychotherapy, the paper outlines the conditions which lead clients to consult spiritists and examines its system of diagnosis and treatment.
  • (9) Finally the socio-cultural context within which the healing takes place is examined to show that spiritist healers are reconstructing networks of patronage and dependency similar to those of traditional Brazilian society that provide meaning and security for the ill in the midst of disruptive urbanization and modernization.
  • (10) This paper describes surgeries and other healings performed without antiseptics and anesthesia by two Brazilian spiritist healers.
  • (11) After describing and analyzing a healing session, the practices are shown to be deviant from conventional Spiritism in two directions: (1) they employ a technique, called apometry, that they claim makes possible the transportation of a part of the patient's body to the astral world where it is treated by disincarnate doctors who do past life regressions; and (2) although a conventional Spiritist disobsession is performed, the healers invoke rival Afro-Brazilian spirits who often are shown to have caused the patient's symptoms.
  • (12) The author compares reported expectations and outcomes of mental health center patients and patients of spiritist healers.
  • (13) Photograph: Alamy People come from all over the world to seek the help of João de Deus (John of God) , the leader of a Christian-spiritist sect in a town called Abadiânia, near Brasília.
  • (14) This paper, based on participant observation in 79 Puerto Rican households and 6 spiritist centros in a low-income area of New York City, describes this institution and examines its contributions to a broader understanding of psychological healing as well as its practical implications for community health.
  • (15) The special difficulties of women in Puerto Rico are highlighted, and psychiatric and ethnopsychological (Spiritist) models of etiology and treatment are compared.
  • (16) This paper examines the treatment of patients by a group of Spiritist healers in southern Brazil.

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