| Editor-in-chief | Amalia Domingo Soler |
|---|---|
| Categories | Spiritual magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1900 |
| Final issue | 1914 |
| Country | Spain |
| Based in | Barcelona |
| Language | Spanish |
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
- ^ "Title: La Luz del porvenir (1879)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f "Luz y unión" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lisa Abend (2004). "Specters of the Secular: Spiritism in Nineteenth-century Spain". European History Quarterly. 34 (4): 530. doi: 10.1177/0265691404046545. S2CID 143588156.