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Animism

Animism (from Latin: anima, meaning 'breath', 'spirit', or 'life') is the worldview or perception that various types of natural phenomena, including non-human organisms and often even landforms and inanimate objects, possess distinct spiritual essences, souls, or personhood. Animism assumes a wide view about which entities may be considered animate, thus…

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Animism

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Edges277
Triples363
Avg. degree1.99
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Animism

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related to Further reading · 93
Animism → Adler, Alfred Irving, America, An Adventure, Ancient Chiang Mai, Andrew, Animismus, Animist, Are They, Armstrong, Bad Liebenzell, Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, Bartholomew, Chiang Mai, Christianity, Cognoscenti Books, Columbia University Press, Continuum, Cosmology
related to Sources · 73
Animism → Abram, Alexander Charles Oughter, An Earthly Cosmology, Archaeology, Ashley, Becoming Animal, Berkeley, Bibcode, Bird-David, California Press, Changed, Charles Scribner's Sons, Co, Current Anthropology, Curtis, David, Dorling Kindersley, Enchantment, Encyclopædia Britannica, Environment
related to Confounding animism with totemism · 16
Animism → Aboriginal Australians, According, Anthropologists, Bachofen, Certain, Durkheim, Edinburgh, In, Inuit, John Ferguson McLennan, Primitive, Sigmund Freud, Subsequent, Tim Ingold, Tylor, Tylor's
related to Religion · 16
Animism → Africa, American, Americas, Asia, Columbus, European, Forbes, In, Jack, Native, Other Cannibals, Religion, Science, The Routledge Companion, There, This
related to Edward Tylor's definition · 14
Animism → According, Auguste Comte, For Tylor, He, However, Primitive, Primitive Culture, Sir Edward Tylor, Stringer, The, This, Thus, Tylor, Westerners
related to Hallowell and the Ojibwe · 12
Animism → Bird-David's, Canada, For, Hallowell, Hallowell's, He, Irving Hallowell, Nurit Bird-David, Ojibwe, Seven, The, Western
related to Postmodern anthropology · 10
Animism → As, Bruno Latour, Cartesian, Drawing, Human, In, Modernism, More, These, Tylor's
related to Relation to the concept of 'I-thou' · 10
Animism → Contemporary Animism, Graham Harvey, Handbook, Harvey, He, I-it, I-thou, In, Martin Buber's, Religious
related to Psychology · 9
Animism → Conversely, From, Guthrie, He, His, In, Jean Piaget, Margaret Mead, Stewart Guthrie
related to Social evolutionist conceptions · 9
Animism → According, By, However, The, Their, These, Tylor, Tylor's, With

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world animistic religion religions animist spiritual natural belief indigenous spirits animals religious also persons humans human life nature rather term

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Animismis ainverse of scientism0.90text
Animismis awider and more inclusive term and that oral0.90text
Animismpart oftheir core beliefs as demonstrated by the belief in Anito0.85text
wordsinstance ofAnimism may further attribute a life force to abstract concepts0.80text
true namesinstance ofAnimism may further attribute a life force to abstract concepts0.80text
or metaphors in mythologyinstance ofAnimism may further attribute a life force to abstract concepts0.80text
the Aboriginal Australians are more typically totemic in their worldviewinstance ofCertain indigenous religious groups0.80text
whereas others like the Inuit are more typically animisticinstance ofCertain indigenous religious groups0.80text
the Bodhi Treeinstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text
numerous superlative banyan treesinstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text
conserve the sacred groves of Indiainstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text
revere the rivers as sacredinstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text

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