Abstraction should not be confused withspiritualism, which is just abstraction from location.From theCambridge English Corpus
In an age when technology and materialism seemed to have undermined religious faith, a new 'modernspiritualism' was suddenly born, and it exploded into prominence.From theCambridge English Corpus
At the core ofspiritualismas a social practice was the medium.From theCambridge English Corpus
The failure ofspiritualismmay be attributed to a schism within its own defining concepts.From theCambridge English Corpus
The discourses ofspiritualismand occultism collapse the poles of this defining dichotomy by insisting that the supernatural is natural.From theCambridge English Corpus
I will argue, however, thatspiritualismviolated not only the notion of stable gender identity but of identity altogether.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thus,spiritualismnecessarily entails "gender trouble," just as its attempt to combine faith and science necessarily entails epistemological confusion.From theCambridge English Corpus
The history ofspiritualismthus adds a cautionary note to those postmodern theories that see a subversive, utopian subject as a desideratum.From theCambridge English Corpus
Later, from the mid nineteenth century, new modes came in withspiritualismand revamped more urbanised astrology and fortune-telling.From theCambridge English Corpus
Spiritualismcrossed and recrossed the boundaries between the spiritual and material world to offer this information, to provide this direct form of contact.From theCambridge English Corpus
Perhaps to the astonishment of his opponents, he did not try to inscribe the incompatibility between materialism/ republicanism andspiritualism/monarchism in the brain.From theCambridge English Corpus
They posited metaphysical intervention,spiritualism, imagination, and elitism as the antitheses to sweeping rationalism, simplification, and mass culture.From theCambridge English Corpus
Suddenly the absurdities ofspiritualismare not funny anymore.From theCambridge English Corpus
Those scientists who acceptedspiritualismsaw their new work as continuation of their scientific research.From theCambridge English Corpus
Spiritualism's opponents did not underrate the social threat of the movement, particularly as it regarded sexuality and marriage.From theCambridge English Corpus
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