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 ...

Animism is often defined as the belief that all things — including inanimate objects like plants, animals and rocks — have a spirit or soul. La Caze and his tattoo are pictured on his LinkedIn ...

The contribution concludes with reflections on the implications of this presuppositional analytic approach for debates concerned with animism and the “ontological turn.” Bates, H. W. 1863. The ...