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Definition of animism in English: animismnoun ˈanɪmɪz(ə)mˈænəˌmɪzəm mass noun1The attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. Example sentencesExamples - Islam has had a presence in this part of Africa since the 12 th century, but well into the 19th the traditional order was still based in animism.
- There's also a sense of animism, wherein a particular tree beside a stream might constitute a sacred place.
- And animism is one of the first things I think of when you describe this world where there are spirits in everything, and they're communicating with each other, and you have to go to an expert to mediate between you and them.
- Discarding animism is the first principle of science, which Monod calls the principle of objectivity.
- It was also during this period that Theravada Buddhism gained strength in Ayutthaya, despite the deep roots of superstition and animism that still exist even today.
- Scientists eventually must deal with animism, it's now too important to be left to clerics and barristers.
- My understanding is that animism does not start from the premise that objects are inanimate.
- Beninese animism, dance, and music have a long and rich history.
- More appropriately, in animism, these objects have never been ‘inanimate’ - they are always already ‘possessed’.
- Many different strands are woven together: elements of Christian iconography, a kind of coastal animism, surreal touches, a subdued eroticism.
- The expressive power of these works is dramatically amplified when considered in the context of their natural setting, and gives a face to the palpable, yet otherwise abstract animism that pervades the woods near his home.
2The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. a village steeped in ancient animism and rituals Example sentencesExamples - The Tukulor, one of Senegal's seven main ethnic groups, converted to Islam in the 11th century, but animism remained widespread until the middle of the 19th century.
- The nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from primitive animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world.
- And even though nowhere in Buddhist scripture is there any mention of any kind of ghosts or animism, a strong belief in magic still remains.
- Javanese identity has been built up over many centuries, and many religious and cultural traditions: ancient Malay animism, Indian Hinduism, Buddhism, and later, Islam, later still Christianity.
- Hinduism's deepest inroads into Bali's animism came in the 16th century, after the armies of Islam had defeated the powerful Madjapahit Hindu dynasty.
- Shamanism is the ancient religion of animism and nature-spirit worship and its origins in Korea are lost in antiquity.
- One note of dissent came from a group of radical students at the Muslim university who wanted to ‘clean up’ the town's traditional tolerance of animism and other faiths.
- Groups that descended into animism might never emerge from this ‘stone age’ of their development, because of the stifling effects of such things as taboos, and fear of evil spirits.
- Thai beliefs actually reflect a mix of Theravada Buddhism, Hinduism, and animism (spirit worship).
- Some, such as the Dais in Yunnan and the Zhuangs in the southwest, practice animism.
- Why did that other poster think that Monotheism, pantheism and animism are exclusive to each other?
- The proportion of Yorubas in Nigeria who are Muslim, Catholic, or Protestant or who subscribe to traditional beliefs or animism is not stated.
- The two main religions are Roman Catholicism and Voudou, or Voodoo, a mixture of African animism (belief in spirits and nature) and Christianity.
- In a culture where witch trials occur and animism is alive and well, the Catholic Church nevertheless plays a major role in East Timorese society.
- Here, life is presented as purely immanent to itself and without a lapse into transcendent views of nature such as pantheism and animism.
- Shamanism is an ancient religion that includes belief in animism, deities, and demons.
- Other faiths include Roman Catholicism, Islam, animism, and Mahayana Buddhism - the type of Buddhism found most often in northern Asia.
- In more recent years, immigrants from Vietnam and Laos have brought folk religions such as animism into some U.S. communities.
- These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.
- Their pre-Christian religion could be described as animism - the belief that everything is alive with natural or supernatural spirits.
Derivatives noun ˈanɪmɪstˈænəməst Scotland started as a place of superstitious animists and pantheists, much as it is today. Example sentencesExamples - Traditional Javanese Islam, a blend of Sufism mixed with animist and Hindu concepts predating Islam, shares common heritage with Bali.
- Broadly, I'm something of an animist, so my everyday life is filled with minor recognitions, deals, tributes, and negotiations with local spirits.
- Well, I would say to this that I am very much an animist, and my experience of working with spirits - be they spirits of places, local area networks, or behavioural memes, indicates to me at least, that it is do-able to varying degrees.
- The census officers kept complaining that it was nearly impossible for them to decide who was an animist and who was a Hindu, since all worshipped God in many forms.
- Muslims as well as Christians have strict views on sexual conduct, and even animists are expressing their desire to restore older mores.
adjective anɪˈmɪstɪk They are also unified conceptually by the fact that all have to do with water spirits and the symbolism of Japan's indigenous animistic religion, Shinto. Example sentencesExamples - The tribal groups are animistic, constantly making offerings to the myriad spirits believed to inhabit the village, houses, trees, paths, mountains etc.
- The ancient Pacific religions have been animistic religions, that is very, very close relationships between human and the natural elements.
- It is said to have begun before the introduction of Buddhism, when the people of ancient Tibet observed animistic forms of religion and used the foodstuffs they produced as offerings to their gods.
- The religion of the mudang was polytheistic and somewhat animistic.
- Vedic Invocations, which are deemed animistic and crudely pagan by many scholars, merely invoke God through his attributes and functions.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Latin anima 'life, soul' + -ism. Definition of animism in US English: animismnounˈanəˌmizəmˈænəˌmɪzəm 1The attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. Example sentencesExamples - Discarding animism is the first principle of science, which Monod calls the principle of objectivity.
- More appropriately, in animism, these objects have never been ‘inanimate’ - they are always already ‘possessed’.
- It was also during this period that Theravada Buddhism gained strength in Ayutthaya, despite the deep roots of superstition and animism that still exist even today.
- Scientists eventually must deal with animism, it's now too important to be left to clerics and barristers.
- Many different strands are woven together: elements of Christian iconography, a kind of coastal animism, surreal touches, a subdued eroticism.
- There's also a sense of animism, wherein a particular tree beside a stream might constitute a sacred place.
- My understanding is that animism does not start from the premise that objects are inanimate.
- The expressive power of these works is dramatically amplified when considered in the context of their natural setting, and gives a face to the palpable, yet otherwise abstract animism that pervades the woods near his home.
- And animism is one of the first things I think of when you describe this world where there are spirits in everything, and they're communicating with each other, and you have to go to an expert to mediate between you and them.
- Islam has had a presence in this part of Africa since the 12 th century, but well into the 19th the traditional order was still based in animism.
- Beninese animism, dance, and music have a long and rich history.
2The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. a village steeped in ancient animism and rituals Example sentencesExamples - In more recent years, immigrants from Vietnam and Laos have brought folk religions such as animism into some U.S. communities.
- Thai beliefs actually reflect a mix of Theravada Buddhism, Hinduism, and animism (spirit worship).
- Groups that descended into animism might never emerge from this ‘stone age’ of their development, because of the stifling effects of such things as taboos, and fear of evil spirits.
- Their pre-Christian religion could be described as animism - the belief that everything is alive with natural or supernatural spirits.
- The two main religions are Roman Catholicism and Voudou, or Voodoo, a mixture of African animism (belief in spirits and nature) and Christianity.
- Shamanism is the ancient religion of animism and nature-spirit worship and its origins in Korea are lost in antiquity.
- One note of dissent came from a group of radical students at the Muslim university who wanted to ‘clean up’ the town's traditional tolerance of animism and other faiths.
- The proportion of Yorubas in Nigeria who are Muslim, Catholic, or Protestant or who subscribe to traditional beliefs or animism is not stated.
- Here, life is presented as purely immanent to itself and without a lapse into transcendent views of nature such as pantheism and animism.
- These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.
- Other faiths include Roman Catholicism, Islam, animism, and Mahayana Buddhism - the type of Buddhism found most often in northern Asia.
- The Tukulor, one of Senegal's seven main ethnic groups, converted to Islam in the 11th century, but animism remained widespread until the middle of the 19th century.
- Some, such as the Dais in Yunnan and the Zhuangs in the southwest, practice animism.
- Shamanism is an ancient religion that includes belief in animism, deities, and demons.
- Why did that other poster think that Monotheism, pantheism and animism are exclusive to each other?
- And even though nowhere in Buddhist scripture is there any mention of any kind of ghosts or animism, a strong belief in magic still remains.
- Hinduism's deepest inroads into Bali's animism came in the 16th century, after the armies of Islam had defeated the powerful Madjapahit Hindu dynasty.
- Javanese identity has been built up over many centuries, and many religious and cultural traditions: ancient Malay animism, Indian Hinduism, Buddhism, and later, Islam, later still Christianity.
- The nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from primitive animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world.
- In a culture where witch trials occur and animism is alive and well, the Catholic Church nevertheless plays a major role in East Timorese society.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Latin anima ‘life, soul’ + -ism. |