A cultura simbólica espírita e o dialogismo filosófico, científico e religioso nos textos de Allan Kardec

Abstract

This study aims to understand how the spiritist discourse has become political and socially possible, especially in Brazil, by establishing confrontations and accessions with other knowledge coming from the field of philosophy, science and Christianity, thus gaining legitimacy. It is argued that spiritism can be understood as part of a network of forces that conditioned the dialogue between religion and discursive values of modernity. The theoretical approach and analytical devices are based on Thompson, Bakhtin and Foucault, and it is adopted as a corpus of spiritualism founding texts written by Allan Kardec, The results show that spiritist dialogism is built in a intertextual and discursivelyway, revealing a redefinition of some Greek philosophical thesis, Christian ethics and positivism. It assumes that there is an attempt to associate the know thyself ( gnothi seauton ) with the “self care” ( epimeleia heautou ), based on the assumption of rational faith and spiritist science .