Publisher's Synopsis
Now spanning three centuries, Spiritualism has evolved into a movement that reflects the highly individualistic spiritual experience of its adherents, and the anarchic and complex nature therefore of its many and various groupings. The New Spiritualists' Society seeks to allow a networking of those who share its declared views in an attempt to bring some order to this chaos, without coercion or imposing rules and regulations. Among the matters of the procedure, belief, proscriptions and prescriptions that are attached to each of these groupings, the debate around the singing of hymns has become a particular 21st century debating point, possibly overtaking the issue of reincarnation...
