Reprints and permissions Copyright information © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC About this entry Cite this entry Bailey, L.W. (2010). Animism. In: Leeming, D.A., Madden, K., Marlan, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/1...
belief in spiritual beings, and represents the minimum or rudimentary definition of religion. With this postulate as the groundwork for the philosophy of religion, the development of religious thought can be traced from existing data and therefore admits of scientific treatment. The principle of ...
Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior Will Whitham 3 Accesses Synonyms Animism Definition Review of scientific evidence for animism beliefs in nonhuman animals. Evaluation of evidence for animism beliefs in nonhuman animals (hereafter: animals) is complicated by disagreement over how animism ...
What follows is a discussion in three parts. I begin with an outline of James George Frazer’s definition of ‘sympathetic magic’ while mindful of Felix Gonzales-Torres’s artwork. I then touch on Marcel Mauss’s (1872-1950) notion of ‘effluvia’ which ‘travel about’ (1975: 72) from...