A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining a following around the globe. New animist environmental activists are not ...

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should ...

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Vol. 173, No. 4, Special Issue: New Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java (2017), pp. 552-558 (7 pages) Bird-David, Nurit (1999). ‘Animism’ Revisited.

Converts to Christianity in Laos are facing eviction from their village because of their beliefs, according to a US rights group. Authorities in Huay village, Savannakhet province, accused the ...

Dr. Carlos Segovia (Humanities and Social Sciences), whose current research focuses on both contemporary animism and the correlation between poetry, mythology and tragedy in post-nihilistic times, ...

Edited film documents the Toraja people's (south Sulawesi, Indonesia) animist religion and their adherance to their religious practices in the face of modern religious pressures to convert. Produced ...

Animism and magic: E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazier -- Religion and personality: Sigmund Freud -- Society as sacred: Emile Durkheim -- Religion as alienation: Karl Marx -- Reality of the sacred: Mircea ...

(The Conversation) — A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining a following around the globe. Most of these people ...