Michel Faber

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

Dutch Writer

Joseph Jacobs

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Australian Historian

Animism personifies natural elements as having spirits, vital for understanding tribal and ethnic beliefs.

Nature's Souls

When discussing animism, especially in indigenous contexts, use respectful tone acknowledging their spiritual views.

Cultural Respect

Animism is more than a religion; it's a worldview that nature and sentient beings are interconnected.

Beyond Religion

Modern usage of animism rarely refers to the soul theory; it's mostly historical or philosophical.

Archaic Usage

Animism contributes to discussions on the existence of the soul and its role in life.

Philosophical Debate

The concept of animism was once intertwined with the understanding of health and medicine.

Historical Medicine

 reality we would go out there we film as much as we wanted to film covering all our angles of all our bases but with a animism you can't do that every time the virtual camera turns around it has to create the the image so you have to be much more disciplined about what you're going to actually see in the final

Edge of the Universe PIPE...

 gods demons angels aliens intelligent designers government conspiracists in all manner of invisible agents with power and intention or believe to haunt our world and control our lives I think it's the basis of animism and polytheism and monotheism it's the belief that aliens are somehow more advanced than us

The pattern behind...

 who was the first professor of anthropology at Oxford, one of the first modern anthropologists. In his book on primitive culture, he says the heart of religion is what he called animism, that is, the belief in spiritual agency, belief in spirits. The first problem for that definition

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is...

 animism people here believe in a world of spirits that demands offerings originally divers would perform just after the yam harvest to thank the gods and to assure another fruitful crop the village of wali is one of several on the island that holds land diving rituals

Dangerous Rites: Vine...

 souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspiracists and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention, are believed to haunt our world and control our lives. I think it's the basis of animism

 animism people here believe in a world of spirits that demands offerings originally divers would perform just after the yam harvest to thank the gods and to assure another fruitful crop the village of wali is one of several on

Land Divers PIPE National...

 Khmers, and people all over the world practiced animism. Serpents were especially important in this belief system because in their fluid, curvilinear movement, they mimicked the flow of water.

The magic of Khmer...

 are elusive but it is said to have evolved out of the region's traditions of ancestor worship and animism Taza good news is a third-generation voodoo priest and healed he treats patients and

Birth of Voodoo PIPE...

 are elusive but it is said to have evolved out of the region's traditions of ancestor worship and animism Pazza good news is a third-generation voodoo priest and healed

 are elusive but it is said to have evolved out of the region's traditions of ancestor worship and animism aza good news is a third generation voodoo priest