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In the last Census, 33,148 Australians identified with a nature religion, or Paganism. Who are the Pagans – and what do they do and believe?
The ecological values of ancient Eurasian cultures actively survive and connect the peoples of the Silk Road.
Soft animism is a term I use to refer to an acceptance of the animist ethic, sensibility, and mode of perception but a rejection of the…
Sean McShee reviews the current status of the legal concept described as the "Rights of Nature"
New Animism emphasizes the interconnectedness and interdependence of all beings within the web of life.
This essay by W. Y. Evans-Wentz was first published in 1911 and attempts to place Celtic beliefs in a wider global animism.
Shapeshifting images run deep in human history, going back to ancient cave paintings. Archeologist Chris Gosden says they're linked to the shaman's ability to cross into the spirit world where humans and animals merge.
I resonate to the new animism because, like the commons, it is about honoring relationality as a core reality of life, a core idea of Free, Fair, and Alive.
In some cultures, life and sentience are believed to exist for only certain beings, such as humans, animals, and plants. In other belief systems, however, places and objects are also believed to have some level of sentience.
The latest rage among those who are "spiritual but not religious" is animism. That is the religion associated with what used to be called "primitive tribes," the view that animals, plants, bodies of water, and natural forces are animated by spirits, which must be placated and worshiped.
Animism followers keeping ancient beliefs of worshipping intact have been brought to light in tribal-inhabited Goalpara and Karbi Anglong districts of
Animism describes religions in which humans are connected to the landscape around them but do not dominate it.
An anthropologist explores the resurgence of “new Animism”— spiritual practices that see animals, places, plants, and people as interrelated.