Wikipedia's article on Spiritualism as a religious movement, stating that by 1897 it had "more than eight million followers in the United States and Europe", drawn particularly from the middle and upper classes and disproportionately women, and naming the camp meeting communities (Lily Dale, Camp Etna, Onset Bay Grove, Camp Chesterfield, Cassadaga) and organisations (the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, the Spiritualists' National Union) through which the movement institutionalised, a continuously revised, community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author, hence the lower tier, though useful for this one historical membership figure and these documented site and organisation names.
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Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism_(religious_movement)
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a community edited encyclopedia article, useful here for the widely repeated 1897 eight million estimate and the documented camp meeting geography. Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Cassadaga directly: "Onset Bay Grove, Camp Chesterfield, Cassadaga) and organisations (the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, the Spiritualists' National Union) through which the movement institutionalised..."
This source names Lily Dale directly: "naming the camp meeting communities (Lily Dale, Camp Etna, Onset Bay Grove, Camp Chesterfield, Cassadaga) and organisations (the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, the Spiritualists'..."
This source names Spiritualism directly: "Wikipedia's article on Spiritualism as a religious movement, stating that by 1897 it had "more than eight million followers in the United States and Europe", drawn particularly from the middle and..."
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Religions, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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