(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 ...

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.

Thousands of indigenous people marched through the streets of Gumla town in India's Jharkhand state demanding recognition of their traditional religions. The rally of about 10,000 people on April 24 ...

Here I look at E.B. Tylor's classic work Primitive culture, particularly that aspect that deals with animism. I discuss several of the critiques of animism, showing how most of them have actually ...