La Luz del Porvenir
| Categories |
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|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | Juan Torrents |
| Founder | Amalia Domingo Soler |
| Founded | 1879 |
| First issue | 22 May 1879 |
| Final issue | May 1900 |
| Country | Spain |
| Based in | Barcelona) |
| Language | Spanish |
La Luz del Porvenir (
History and profile
La Luz del Porvenir was established by Amalia Domingo Soler in 1879.[2] Its full title was La Luz del Porvenir: Semanario Espiritista.[3] The first issue appeared on 22 May 1879 in Vila de Gràcia in Barcelona with the support of the director of the La Buena Nueva Spiritist Center, Luis Llach.[1] It was published by Juan Torrents on a weekly basis and adopted a spirist approach.[1][2] The magazine appeared on Wednesdays and consisted of single-column eight pages with no visual material.[4][5]
Amalia Domingo Soler also directed the magazine and published her writings on
After publishing its first three issues La Luz del Porvenir was suspended by the government for forty-two weeks due to the publication of an article entitled “The idea of God”.[1] Between 8 December 1898 and 24 August 1899 the magazine was also closed down.[1] It folded in May 1900 when it was merged with the magazine of the Kardecist Spiritist Union of Catalonia (Unión Espiritista Kardecista de Cataluña) to form another magazine entitled Luz y unión (Spanish: Light and union).[1]
The Spanish National Library digitized the issues of La Luz del Porvenir covering the years 1884-1888.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Title: La Luz del porvenir (1879)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ S2CID 234912887.
- ^ JSTOR 90010096.
- ^ a b Judith Rideout (2017). Women's writing networks in Spanish magazines around 1900 (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. pp. 11, 29.
- ^ "Revista La Luz del Porvenir" (in Spanish). Curso Espíritas. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- S2CID 237762453.