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| | Animism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Animism is commonly described as the most primitive form of religion, but properly speaking it is not a religion at all. | | | Animism (from animus, or anima, mind or soul), originally means the doctrine of spiritual beings. | | | Animism is in the first instance an explanation of phenomena rather than an attitude of mind toward the cause of them, a philosophy rather than a religion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Animism |
| | With Tylor the worship of the dead is an important subdivision of animism; with Spencer it is the one and all of religion. | | | Hence the fear-theory of religion is essential to animism. | | | Their religious belief is known as animism, i.e. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01526a.htm
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| | Animism |
| | Animism entailed worship of ancestors and spirit worship. | | | Animism today has been assimilated to the mainstream script religions of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. | | | Two thousand years of penetration by Buddhism, Hindusim, Islam and both Catholic and Protestant Christianity have not annihilated Animistic beliefs and practices from the normal, everyday world of SE Asian peoples, whether they live in the Indonesian world or on the Indo-China peninsula. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/seasia/animism.html
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Animism |
| | Animism (from Latin, anima, “breath” or “soul”), belief in spiritual beings. | | | In Primitive Culture (1871) Tylor defined animism as the general belief in spiritual beings and considered it “a minimum definition of religion”. | | | He asserted that all religions, from the simplest to the most complex, involve some form of animism. |
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http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761575937/Animism.html
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| | The World of Animism - Probe Ministries |
| | Animism (or folk religion) is a religion that sees a spirit or spiritual force behind every event, and many objects of the physical world carry some spiritual significance. | | | First, in contrast to the many temperamental gods in animism, the Bible teaches that there is only one God. | | | The unseen world of animism begins with the understanding of "mana," or the life force that permeates the entire universe. |
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http://www.probe.org/content/view/22/0
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| | aaronc - world religions - animism |
| | In animism a soul or spiritual being is attributed to and is indwelling in all animate and inanimate entities. | | | Animism is the belief in innumerable spiritual beings concerned with human affairs and can help or harm man's interests. | | | In the modern anthropological usage of the term animism, it denotes not a single creed or doctrine but rather a view of the world consistent with a certain range of religious beliefs and practices, many of which may survive in more complex and hierarchical religions. |
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http://www.jpdawson.com/modrelg/animism.html
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| | Basic Beliefs of Animism |
| | The basis for animism is acknowledgment that there is a spiritual realm which humans share the universe with. | | | In anthropology, animism can be considered to be the original human religion, being defined simply as belief in the existence of spiritual beings. | | | Although specific beliefs of animism vary widely, similarities between the characteristics of gods and goddesses and rituals practiced by animistic societies exist. |
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/religion/animism/beliefs.html
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| | Animism |
| | Animism is the belief that a spirit or divinity resides within every object, controlling its existence and influencing human life and events in the natural world. | | | Tylor regarded animism as the most primitive stage in the evolution of religion. | | | Although he developed no fixed evolutionary sequence, Tylor postulated that a belief in animism led to the definition of more generalized deities and, eventually, to the worship of a single god. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/animism.htm
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| | Animism - OccultForums.com |
| | On topic: Animism is one of the very first spiritual beliefs that we know of to have come about but no it is not a religion. | | | The belief of animism is probably one of man's oldest beliefs, with its origin most likely dating to the Paleolithic age. | | | An British anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor in his "Primitive Culture" (1871) defined animism "as a general belief in spiritual beings and considered it 'a minimum definition of religion.'" He stated all religions from the simplest to the most complexed shared some sort of animistic belief. |
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http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=5477
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| | Animism |
| | The oldest peasant religion in Vietnam was known as Animism or ancestor worship. | | | Animism blended well with Buddhism and added a new dimension onto the belief system. | | | When Buddhism was added to the previous practices of ancestor worship it became an inseparable element of peasant practices. |
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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/Animism.HTM
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| | Animism is also an aspect of nature worship. | | | Tylor wrote his great work to prove that religion began with animism. | | | This has been the basic factor in the popular religion of China for 3000 years. |
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http://www.geocities.com/spenta_mainyu/animism.htm
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| | ANIMISM |
| | Animism is by many regarded as the earliest form which religion took, and as the root from which was derived all religious beliefs which the world has known, and was also the earliest basis of all that is dignified by the name of culture. | | | Such transitions have been made.[5] Accordingly, Tylor would define animism as "the doctrine of spirits or of spiritual beings."[6] He furthermore proposes as a minimum definition of religion "belief in spiritual beings."[7] While one may criticize this last as leaving out the objective result of "belief in spiritual beings" in worship or cult, Tylor | | | It is, perhaps, impossible to state where the worship of spirits stops and that of gods begins, to decide exactly where the spirit shades into the deity. |
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http://www.spiritandlight.com/ebooks/shamanism/animism.htm
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| | Animism |
| | Shinto, the state religion of Japan, is an Animist religion. | | | There would seem to be no way to describe this approach other than animism, the belief that all things have a “nature&; and respond to us as we respond to them. | | | I share with this ancient animism a belief that these other beings can be our guides and teachers, even friends or enemies, but arising from no will or spirit on the part of these beings. |
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http://dcwi.com/~eric/Animism.htm
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| | Practical Animism |
| | Animism is a body of knowledge founded upon the belief that the things around us are infused with more than mere existence. | | | Animism is inextricably linked to the place or places where it is practiced. | | | The characteristic that sets a body of practical animism apart from mere belief in animist precepts is its usefulness. |
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http://hpwsys.com/dave
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| | Animism |
| | Animism cannot be strictly classified as a world religion because there is no connected rule, but in practice, it gives rise to the polytheistic practices and idolatrous superstitions of many of the mainstream religions. | | | Animism is a superstitious way of life that believes in spirit worship, fetishism and the worship of nature. | | | Every thought, word, prayer or dream has an individual spiritual meaning and magical power that can aid or hinder them in the course of nature. |
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http://www.latter-rain.com/genko/animi.htm
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| | Animism |
| | Animism can be defined as the belief in the existence of spirtual beings. | | | Since the common them in animism is that all things have a spirtual existence, animism can be tied directly to religions around the world. | | | The easiest way to characterize the combination of animism and other religions is to observe the way human's worship their ancestors. |
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/n/x/nxs248/animism.html
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| | Religion and Cults - Animism |
| | Pantheism is the first logical consequence of Animism: All the world is divine: A mountain is god, a rock, an animal... | | | Today Animism is represented, among others, by the Mormons, Hinduism and the New Age. | | | The "Primitive Religions" were born in the five Continents, more than 3,000 years ago, mostly in the form of "Animism", because they believed that everything has a "soul", an "anima" in Latin, a "spirit"... |
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http://religion-cults.com/Ancient/Animism/Animism.htm
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| | Animism |
| | Animism Animism, with ancestor-worship, is the primitive belief of the Thai and their neighbours as well, and this formed the first layer of Thai religion. | | | Animism - Animism Animism, with ancestor-worship, is the primitive belief of the Thai and their neighbours as well, and this formed the first layer of Thai religion. | | | Later on came Buddhism and the Thai adopted it as their national religion. |
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http://www.thaipro.com/z1022b/546_thailand.html
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| | 4 - Animism |
| | As for Animism, contemporary physics and parapsychology are rediscovering the principles that this form of spirituality has all along taken for granted. | | | Major religions have retained numerous aspects from Totemism and Animism. | | | Guided by their Eternons, the first humans had basic convictions: the spiritual nature of all things and the intimacy of matter and forces. |
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http://www.eternism.com/EternismAndReligion/religion04.htm
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| | The Influence of Animism on Islam [Chapter I, notes] |
| | And the Animism of civilized men, which has been and is the foundation of every religious system, except the more rigid Pantheism, is historically continuous with the primitive doctrine. | | | The belief in life after death and in the mortality of the soul is not disputed. | | | In the use of the word "Animism" we refer to primitive pagan practices and not to other uses of the term. |
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http://www.bible.ca/islam/library/Zwemer/Animism/notes1.htm
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| | Animism - The Harmony Project |
| | As in the earliest days of humankind, animism is not only a way of life, a religion, but also a philosophy: that each individual by interacting with divine Spirit has the power to create the future. | | | Do this and you will come close to the experience of the first conscious humans in "primitive cultures" and also what is the foundational perspective for almost all religions and societies to this day. | | | All races can learn to live in harmony - like the rainbow made up of many colors but all a part of the one beautiful image. |
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http://www.theharmonyproject.org/sacredpaths/animism
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| | The Water Page - Water in Animism |
| | Animistic religion may lead to the belief in specific water spirits, or the water itself may even be imbued with supernatural qualities, qualities which prove to be enduring despite supercedence by Islamic or Christian religion. | | | However, the focus will not just include animism and water, but will also examine a non-animistic religion in Malawi so that contrasts and similarities can be drawn. | | | As there is a large scope for study, there will be an attempt to highlight common features that will allow comparison between animistic religions and their relevance to water. |
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http://www.thewaterpage.com/religion_animism.htm
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| | PenUltimate Productions: Animism |
| | Note that this term encompasses three different tenets of belief which may or may not overlap within a given person's spiritual conceptualization of existence. | | | This is most noticeable with atheists who do not acknowledge a personified sacred force but do acknowledge the awareness in natural objects, or who are interested in various discorporeal but non-divine entities. | | | The same holds true regarding belief in discorporeal entities, as many Pagan traditions also teach methods of contacting spirit helpers, communicating with them, working with them, and so forth. |
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http://www.worthlink.net/~ysabet/spirit/animism.html
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| | animism - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | Christian religion predominates in the south, animism in the north. | | | She realizes that God is inside each...not find, God."(31) Walker affirmed her animism and pantheism as early as 1973, in an interview with John OBrien, when she spoke of animism as part of the African American heritage... | | | ...None of the six main tribes and the several smaller tribes speaks Thai; they are not Buddhists, but have retained their animism spirit religion. |
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http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=animism
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| | Animism |
| | animism: The belief that everything (including inanimate objects) is alive with soul or spirit, a conviction pervasive among most indigenous (tribal/pagan/shamanistic) faiths, including Hinduism, Shintoism and spiritualism. | | | The belief that all things in the universe are inherently invested with a life force, soul, or mind. | | | The belief that every object is indwelt by a spirit. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/animism
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| | animism: belief in a soul, a spiritual essence that differs from the tangible, physical body. |
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http://www.webref.org/anthropology/a/animism.htm
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| | What is animism? |
| | Third is belief in and worship of the souls of people and animals, both the living and the dead, as in ancestor worship. | | | It is thus a spiritual belief, and many scholars have offered the idea that animism was the first spiritual concept of humankind, and that it underlies all further religious thought. | | | A Christian perspective on animism — argumentative but instructive due to the contrasts drawn |
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/faq/blfaq-animism.htm
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| | Animism |
| | Animism can worship in caves, temples, lodge or the home of an important tribe member or shaman. | | | "Animism is a body of knowledge founded upon the belief that the things around us are infused with more than mere existence. | | | Most worship is done outdoors where "god" is, so they can be closer to god in a tree, rock etc. so the answer could be received faster. |
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http://www.possehl.net/animism.htm
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| | Animism |
| | The application of social reasoning to an understanding of the physical environment leads us directly to the earliest form of religious belief: animism. | | | Why mess with thousands of petty spirits when all that behavior can be more economically explained in a single consolidated god? | | | There remain two more questions to address: how did animist science transform into modern religion, and how did modern religion and modern science find themselves at each other's throats? |
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http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/Mind/Animism.html
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| | Animism Links |
| | Animism: The Ancestors are Always There For Us -- a short piece describing and justifying Laotian animistic beliefs and practices. | | | This site is helpful in showing the above-mentioned resurgence of native American religious beliefs and as a vivid description of the pragmatic nature of animism. | | | Practical Animism -- a modern practitioner of native American animism advertises his practice. |
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http://www.missiology.org/animism/Links/links.htm
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| | What is Animism? |
| | Animism comes up in a lot of religious history and until now I didn't know much about it. | | | To varying degrees, earth based faiths generally are animist, whether they use that terminology or not - certainly most... | | | Animism, deriving from the Latin anima (breath or soul), is a system whereby everything is considered to contain or possess a spirit. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/7592/48325
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| | Animism-L Info Page |
| | The animism mailing-list is for discussion of experiences of the sacred spirits of things and ways of honouring them. | | | Animism-L -- Animism -- The Sacred Spirits of Things | | | To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Animism-L Archives. |
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http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/animism-l
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| | Spiritual Paths - Animism |
| | In other words, animism is for people who believe that spiritual beings and forces have power over human lives, and that humans must find out which spirits are impacting them. | | | Animism is a religion that believes all objects, natural phenomena and living beings have souls. | | | The word "Animism" comes from the Latin word "animus" meaning spirit. |
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http://www.fcfchurch.com/spirituality/animism.php
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| | GATEWAY TO BERLIN-WALL - Objectum-sexuality and Animism |
| | According to the experts, Animism is supposed to be the oldest religion on Earth. | | | Animism is the belief that inanimate objects are sentient beings, i.e. | | | I have met several people who are of the same, and more people than you might would think, believe in Animism, that also objects are living things and having a soul. |
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http://www.algonet.se/~giljotin/obj_anim.html
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| | Cobb: Scientific Animism |
| | Animism is, of course, the belief that spirits inhabit animals and that animals should be respected or revered for their possession of these spirits which, properly interpreted, add value to human life and understanding. | | | The term itself describes the willingness of people to believe the pseudoscientific, or even the scientific, without applying the scientific method. | | | Scientific Animism is a term I coined about 16 years ago when I first started reading Ishmael Reed. |
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http://www.mdcbowen.org/cobb/archives/002398.html
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| | animism from FOLDOC |
| | Recommended Reading: Edward Clodd, Animism: The Seed of Religion (Holmes, 1993). | | | Nearby terms: anima « animal rights « animals « animism » annealing » anomalous monism »; Anscombe G.E.M. |
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http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?animism
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| | "Animism: Respecting the Living World" by Graham Harvey |
| | First, a definition: "Animism is the attempt to live respectfully as members of the diverse community of living persons (only some of whom are human) which we call the world or cosmos." | | | Welcome to Animism: Respecting the Living World, a companion website for my book by the same name. | | | The site expands upon the book and includes further discussion, examples, elaborations and incitements that will enable more fruitful discussions about these ways of living respectfully within the wider community that is the living world. |
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http://www.animism.org.uk
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| | Historical Notes: Animism |
| | Particularly since Edward Tylor in 1871 animism has often been thought of as the earliest identifiable form of religion. | | | Polytheism is then assumed to arise when the idea of localized spirits associated with individual natural objects is generalized to the idea of gods associated with types of objects or concepts (as for example in many Roman beliefs). | | | In its typical form, it involves not only explaining natural phenomena by analogy to human behavior but also assuming that they can be influenced as humans might be, say by offerings or worship. |
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http://www.wolframscience.com/reference/notes/1195d
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| | animism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | ANIMISM : Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "animism" is defined. | | | We found 42 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word animism: |
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http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=animism
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| | Technorati Tag: animism |
| | Posts tagged Animism per day for the last 30 days. | | | Research Animism at Questia Research and discover over 1,000,000 books, journals and articles covering over 6,000 research topics, continuously updated - a complete academic library. | | | It took me two full watches to realise it (with a nod to something we discussed with recently, here), by which I mean both movies... |
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