The Puerto Rican Espiritismo archive at the University of Puerto Rico

Record summary

Collections in Puerto Rican libraries and universities preserve periodicals, pamphlets, séance records, correspondence, and books connected with espiritismo and related religious movements. Their continued cataloguing and digitization after 2010 provide concrete research leads into how spirit communication was textualized, debated, and transmitted across Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Such archives are valuable for comparison because they can place contemporary oral practice beside nineteenth- and twentieth-century Kardecist, medical, Catholic, and nationalist discourses. Researchers should confirm collection names, access conditions, provenance, and whether an item is a primary record, polemic, fiction, or devotional manual.