This article aims to examine some recent characteristics of Spiritism in Brazil. It points out, in first place, the omission of the bibliography on the theme regarding to the historical relations established between Spiritism and Catholicism. Next, analyzing the contemporaneous status, it presents new relations Spiritism has established with other religions and science as a strategy of innovation. Based on case-studies, this article presents three personalities - Chico Xavier, Waldo Vieira and Luiz Antonio Gasparetto - who synthesize, through their life-stories, some of the current forms of expressing or contesting spiritist "tradition".
Spiritism; saintliness; Chico Xavier; Waldo Vieira; Luiz Gasparetto