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Animism in the widest sense, i. e., thinking of objects as animate, and treating them as if they were animate, is near-universal.
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The multitude of minor deities of no mention in the scriptures have also been formed by the Janapadas i. e. the tribal masses over the centuries in a localised manner, which is true with most of the Oriental Paganism / Animism.
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Animism ( from Latin anima " soul, life ") is a set of beliefs based on the existence of non-human " spiritual beings " or similar kinds of embodied principles.
Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical ( or material ) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment.
Animism may further attribute souls to abstract concepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology.
Examples of Animism can be found in forms of Shinto, Serer, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Pantheism, Paganism, and Neopaganism.
The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.
Animism is a belief held in many religions around the world, and is not, as some have purported, a type of religion in itself.
According to Tylor, the more scientifically advanced the society, the less that society believed in Animism ; however, any remnant ideologies of souls or spirits, to Tylor, represented “ survivals ” of the original animism of early humanity.
Animism is not the same as Pantheism, although the two are sometimes confused.
" Animism Revisited: Personhood, environment, and relational epistemology ", Current Anthropology 40, pp. 67 – 91.
Animism is common among the mountain tribes.
Animism was also a concept common to many pre-Christian European religions, and in adopting it, contemporary Pagans are attempting to " reenter the primeval worldview " and participate in a view of cosmology " that is not possible for most Westerners after childhood.
Animism and Paganism are also followed.
Animism is the original religion of Veddas.
Animism is widespread ( 50 %), and its practices vary from one ethnic group to the other.
These tribes practiced a mixture of Islam and Animism beliefs.
The Chepangs themselves follow Animism, although they are strongly influenced by both Hinduism and Buddhism, which came from the Tamangs just north of them.
Traditionally Tuareg practiced Animism.
More likely though, the alteration in the story of Hariti and her successful conversion to Buddhism seems to be an early strategy with which to convert the predominantly Iranic Gandharans from Zoroastrianism, and Animism to Buddhism.
Animism is the native religion of most of the Mon – Khmer and more recent Hmong – Mien and Tibeto-Burman minorities, as well as the traditional religion of the Tais before Buddhism, although some Tai tribes to this day are still animist.
Animism and objects
However, due to lack of interaction with the outside world, their religion is more related to Kejawen Animism, though they still retain many elements of Hindu-Buddhist religion influences, like the terms they use to define things and objects, and the rituals in their religious activities.
Animism and animate
Sheldrake in his book The Rebirth of Nature: New Science and the Revival of Animism ( 1991 ) has claimed that Morphic fields " animate organisms at all levels of complexity, from galaxies to giraffes, and from ants to atoms ".
Animism and them
Much of the tribal population consists of the Naga related Nocte, Konyak and Wancho, who traditionally followed Hinduism and Animism, although most of them have converted to Christianity.
Animism and they
The Naurus faith is a combination of Hinduism and Animism, but in recent years they also have adopted certain Protestant principles.
The Nocte were followers of Theravada Buddhism and Animism, although they have adopted Hinduism since the 18th century, under the influence of Shri Shankardeva.
Animism and were
Offenses to nature were like those to other people, and Animism reinforced this by giving nature " personality " via myth.
Animism and is
Animism, which is oldest known human spiritual practice, is the belief Elementals inhabit all things.
Animism is described as the belief in spirits inhabiting and animating beings, or souls existing in things.
The remainder is accounted for by other faiths, including Animism, Folk religion, Sikhism and other belief systems.
The religion is based in the anima ( soul ) of the natural environment, and is therefore a kind of Animism.
It is influenced primarily by Animism, Hinduism, Buddhism, as well as by later migrations from China, and southern India.
Nominally, Animism is the most popular practice, but recently most Tay people practice Mahayana Buddhism in combination with Taoism, under influenced of Vietnamese and Chinese culture.
: A Non-Takara / Hasbro Chinese-made toy was sold under a variety of bootleg and knockoff toy lines like " Beast Tech Robot Fighters " and " Animism Defenders " line which is actually more accurate to the cartoon version than the Deluxe or Blast Punch versions are.
* In the game franchise Touhou Project, Utsuho is a raven who swallows the corpse of the Yatagarasu prior to the events of Subterranean Animism.
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Other synonyms could of course serve the same function, and for the sake of ease I shall speak of kennings and epithets in the widest and loosest possible sense, and name, for example, Gar-Dene a kenning for the Danes.
Amphibia in its widest sense ( sensu lato ) was divided into three subclasses, two of which are extinct:
Unspecific coercion is thus the same thing as the rule of law in its widest sense.
The study of Torah ( in its widest sense, to include both poetry, narrative, and law, and both the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud ) is in Judaism itself a sacred act of central importance.
" ... Bible in its widest sense, means good ; for the Savior says according to the gospel of John, " I am the good shepherd ;" and it will not be beyond the common use of terms, to say that good is among the most important in use, and though known by various names in different languages, still its meaning is the same, and is ever in opposition to bad.
They were established to " promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term — in other words, the knowledge of God.
Thus it broadens the range of sign systems and sign relations, and extends the definition of language in what amounts to its widest analogical or metaphorical sense.
Said was mainly concerned with literature in the widest sense, especially French literature, and did not cover visual art and Orientalist painting, though others, notably Linda Nochlin, have tried to extend his analysis to art, " with uneven results ".
However, some objects attain " use value " to persons in this world, when they are found to be " necessary, useful or pleasant in life ," " Use value " makes an object " an object of human wants ," or is " a means of subsistence in the widest sense.
He would be the patron of all growth and fertility, and, by the use of analogy characteristic of early thought, this Baʿal would be the god of the productive element in its widest sense.
In his own words: " Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we blind are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people.
Although organic farming is prehistoric in the widest sense, Sir Albert Howard is widely considered to be the " father of organic farming " in the sense that he was a key founder of the post-industrial-revolution organic movement.
A dermatologist takes care of diseases, in the widest sense, and some cosmetic problems of the skin, scalp, hair, and nails.
A few other categories of marine animals leave remains which might be considered " seashells " in the widest possible sense of the word.
: This article is concerned with cultural resources in the widest sense: for traditional, archaeological and historic culture specifically see Cultural Heritage Management
" takes an approach similar to Kinderman's, making the case for the work as " a humorous work in the widest possible sense " and pointing out that early commentators took a similar view:
Most commonly it is a title given to a government regulator in the fields of freedom of information and the protection of personal data in the widest sense.
Haushofer defined geopolitik in 1935 as " the duty to safeguard the right to the soil, to the land in the widest sense, not only the land within the frontiers of the Reich, but the right to the more extensive Volk and cultural lands.
In a 1948 article in The Bible Today, Schaeffer explained his own apologetics and how he walked a middle path between evidentialism and presuppositionalism, noting that " If the unsaved man was consistent he would be an atheist in religion, an irrationalist in philosophy ( including a complete uncertainty concerning ' natural laws '), and completely a-moral in the widest sense.
Rahula further says, though, that in declaring " all dhammas are anatta ," the Buddha included even nirvana in his blanket statement that all things are not one's self ; this standard Theravada interpretation also hinges on interpreting the word " sankhara " in the widest sense.
As a discipline and in its widest sense, it is part of biological imaging and incorporates radiology ( in the wider sense ), nuclear medicine, investigative radiological sciences, endoscopy, ( medical ) thermography, medical photography, and microscopy ( e. g. for human pathological investigations ).
There are many possible interpretations as to why this discipline was originally called " kalām "; one is that the widest controversy in this discipline has been about whether the Word of God, as revealed in the Qur ' an, can be considered part of God's essence and therefore not created, or whether it was made into words in the normal sense of speech, and is therefore created.
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