Luz y unión

Luz y unión
Editor-in-chiefAmalia Domingo Soler
CategoriesSpiritual magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1900
Final issue1914
CountrySpain
Based inBarcelona
LanguageSpanish

Luz y unión (Spanish: Light and union) was a spiritualist magazine which was published in Barcelona between 1900 and 1914. It was the official organ of the Kardecian Spiritualist Union of Catalonia.

History and profile

Luz y unión was started as a merger of two magazines, La Luz del Porvenir and La Unión Espiritista.[1][2] The Kardecian Spiritualist Union of Catalonia which included different groups, mainly Catalan, French and Latin American was the owner of the magazine.[2] Jacinto Esteva Marata was the director of the magazine of which editor-in-chief was the Andalusian writer Amalia Domingo Soler.[2] It had correspondents in different countries, including Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Cuba and Nicaragua.[3]

Luz y unión published articles on spiritism which also contained an evaluation of its development in Spain.[4] The magazine was published four times a month with eight-page numbers and later became a monthly publication with thirty-pages.[2] From 1902 its title was renamed as Luz y unión. Revista de estudios psicológicos (Spanish: Light and union, magazine of psychological studies).[2]

Luz y unión was published until 1914 when it was replaced by another magazine entitled Luz, unión y verdad.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Title: La Luz del porvenir (1879)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Luz y unión" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  3. ^ Mònica Balltondre; Andrea Graus (2016). "The City of Spirits. Spiritism, feminism and the secularization of urban spaces". In Oliver Hochadel; Agustí Nieto-Galan (eds.). Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929. London; New York: Routledge. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-317-17619-0.
  4. ^ Lisa Abend (2004). "Specters of the Secular: Spiritism in Nineteenth-century Spain". European History Quarterly. 34 (4): 530. doi:10.1177/0265691404046545. S2CID 143588156.