Elective Affinities: Löwy perspectives and the palmense spiritist movement
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We describe the concept of elective affinities, discussed by Michael Löwy, based on Weberian works, and the spiritist movement in Palmas (Tocantins, Brazil), exposed in the causal nexus between the
different social spheres. Religious ties of reciprocal attraction with other social phenomena and the choice of certain religiosities are established by the worldviews implicit in the subjectivity of individuals. The institutionalisation of Spiritism in Brazil, transformation of philosophy in religion and the privileged social conditions of its followers, reveal the
existence of similar relationships in apparently divergent social spheres yet connected by voluntary articulations. From the conditioning factors of the Palmense Spiritist movement, based on hierocratic and doctrinally hegemonic ethical-philosophical constructions, we have interpreted the connections between religious, economic, political and state interest phenomena in these different social spheres.
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