There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. II, preface (1898)
Spiritism is a spiritualist 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. Spiritism has a large number of followers in Latin America, especially Brazil. (Information source: Wikipedia)
