Spiritualism provides a case study to illustrate the appropriation, reinterpretation and transformation of `science' by individuals outside the confines of the scientific community. Drawing upon fieldwork with Spiritualists in Canada and the United States, as well as historical research, this paper explores how members of one religious community [end of page 1 ] understand `science', and suggests that the Spiritualist acceptance of science as a path to truth is shaped in part by both the positivist strategies of nineteenth century scientists, and by the ongoing appeal to the positivist dimensions of science by members of the contemporary scientific community. It further suggests, however, that Spiritualists' constructions of science as authoritative are contextualized within the conviction that reality encompasses a spiritual dimension: Spiritualism paradoxically reifies science as the path to truth while disputing scientific conclusions that deny the spiritual realm. (1-2, not an abstract)
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