Animism describes practices that establish a relationship between places and people, usually one that recognizes places, animals and plants have power over people.

Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, advances an interesting point about animism. Broadly defined, animism is the ...

02/25/2020. Dr. Carlos Segovia (Humanities and Social Sciences), whose current research focuses on both contemporary animism and the correlation between poetry, mythology and tragedy in ...

Animism describes practices that establish a relationship between places and people, usually one that recognizes places, animals and plants have power over people.

Animism is therefore not a religion but a term for classifying a type of religion, one which was, in the 1870s at least, deemed by European and American scholars to be less civilized.