A term variously used, in particular for the view that apparently inanimate parts of the universe (rivers, mountains, stars, and so on, as well as plants) are in fact animated and activated by souls or spirits; for example, Naiads (springs), Dryads (oak-trees) and so on.
Usually the term is applied to primitive beliefs of this nature rather than to philosophical views claiming to see life in the apparently lifeless (for which also see: hylozoism, panpsychism, vitalism).
‘Teleological animism’ has been used for the view that some wholes organize themselves and their parts so as to fulfill certain aims which they themselves originate.
Also see: organicism
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Animism
- 2.2 The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Acumen Handbooks)
- 2.3 The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
- 2.4 Animism: Respecting the Living World
- 2.5 Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
- 2.6 When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
- 2.7 Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism (Morality, Society and Culture)
- 2.8 Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
- 2.9 Animism: Or, Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples (Forgotten Books)
- 2.10 Christian Animism
Videos
Animism
- Harvey, Graham (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 07/20/2017 (Publication Date) - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Publisher)
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Acumen Handbooks)
- English (Publication Language)
- 544 Pages - 06/08/2015 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Orr, Emma Restall (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 225 Pages - 11/30/2012 (Publication Date) - Moon Books (Publisher)
Animism: Respecting the Living World
- Harvey, Graham (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 248 Pages - 10/26/2005 (Publication Date) - Columbia University Press (Publisher)
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Abram, David (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 338 Pages - 08/24/2010 (Publication Date) - Vintage (Publisher)
When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
- Wallace, Mark I. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 11/20/2018 (Publication Date) - Fordham University Press (Publisher)
Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism (Morality, Society and Culture)
- Hardcover Book
- Vetlesen, Arne Johan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 278 Pages - 03/19/2019 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
- Robert Wolff (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 208 Pages - 08/15/2001 (Publication Date) - Inner Traditions (Publisher)
Animism: Or, Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples (Forgotten Books)
- Gilmore, George William (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 148 Pages - 05/07/2008 (Publication Date) - Forgotten Books (Publisher)
Christian Animism
- Beck, Shawn Sanford (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 60 Pages - 05/29/2015 (Publication Date) - Christian Alternative (Publisher)
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