Talk:Spiritualism (movement)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.2.180.230 (talk) 22:47, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

spiritualism vs Spiritualism
Spiritualism when capitalized may be an earlier modern movement, but when not capitalized is a version of immaterialism simply like idealism and mentalism (philosophy) are and the article should reflect that.--dchmelik (t|c) 19:41, 13 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Indeed. This article is about that early modern movement, Spiritualism, and links to it should be capitalized. There are separate articles, Spiritualism (beliefs) and Spiritualism (philosophy), for the uncapitalized uses. Skyerise (talk) 20:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


 * See MOS:MOVEMENT. Primergrey (talk) 20:53, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 18 March 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Killarnee (talk) 20:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

– This seems to be a surprise target for this word, as I would expect "spiritualism" to be be about the belief system or the philosophy, instead of a specific 19th - 20th century movement/religion. Natg 19 (talk) 17:56, 18 March 2024 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Spiritualism → Spiritualism (movement)
 * Spiritualism (disambiguation) → Spiritualism
 * Support. Spiritualism (beliefs) is just as notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:13, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Support. No surprises. Hyperbolick (talk) 22:41, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Sentence 8 (or second paragraph sentence 5) reads oddly
"Many prominent spiritualists were women, and like most spiritualists, supported causes such as the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage."

This seems oddly phrased, might I suggest a rephrasing to "Many prominent spiritualists were women, and like the majority of the movement, supported causes such as the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage."

The current standing draws excess attention to the fact that women who are spiritualist would support Abolitionism and women's suffrage, which just seems... loaded. SatoriEnd (talk) 01:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)