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Books on: animistic

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Journal Articles on: animistic

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Magazine Articles on: animistic

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Newspaper Articles on: animistic

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    Appeal for Church to Embrace Change
    Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), June 11, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...fact that many of them have non-European origins and have been associated with animistic and oriental understandings of how the body works and, indeed, animistic and oriental religious ideas. Many of us have difficulty separating a particular...
     
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    MY RENDEZVOUS WITH THE RIVER REBELS; When Katharine Houreld Went to the Oil-Rich Niger Delta to Report on a Wave of Expatriate Kidnappings, She Didn't Expect to Be Confronted by Boatloads of Heavily Armed Masked Men - or Get Caught Up in the Dramatic Release of One of Their Hostages
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 22, 2006
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of the inhabitants of the Niger Delta are nominally Christian, but see no contradiction in also following the traditional animistic religions of the region, complete with potions, charms and ritual sacrifice. But then, not everything is what it seems...
     
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    Himalayan Dreams
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 25, 2010
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    Carpenter, Russell
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of the spiritual realm," he says. "In some ways, its reminiscent of Native American religion and other shamanistic-animistic societies. Now, sometimes we call ourselves accidental animists. " As a result of the time theyve spent in Bhutan - more...
     
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    Simulacra, Hyperspaces Viewed in Culture over Time
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 14, 2002
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...rationalism (e.g., Rene Descartes), exiled puppets from the realm of belief to that of imagination, from religion to art. Animistic notions no longer acceptable by scientific materialism fueled the German Romantics, like Heinrich von Kleist, whose essay...
     
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    Letters in the Editor's Mailbag
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 11, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...implausible extremes: creationist idealism and materialist positivism. His thought is in fact more compatible with pantheistic or animistic theologies than with authoritarian orthodoxies. KEVIN RUNEY Eugene Consider dog boundary training No doubt The Register...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: animistic

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    Life
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...been marked by a division of thought between vitalistic (or animistic) and mechanistic (or materialistic) concepts. In the most...either school; elements of both are usually involved. The animistic school, largely predicated on the inexplicability of the...
     
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    Dyak
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...community. Fishing and hunting (with blowguns and poison darts) supplement the food supply. Dyaks have highly complex animistic and shamanistic religious cults. Intertribal warfare has persisted, with headhunting as an important feature. In the second...
     
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    Ainu
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...change and assimilation, which the Ainu resisted in the past, with decreasing success. Their traditional religion is highly animistic and centers on a bear cult; a captive bear was sacrificed at an annual winter feast and his spirit, thus released, was...
     
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    Name
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...adopted surnames that combine those of each partner. In many cultures the name is of supernatural significance. Besides animistic commonplaces such as naming a child after a lucky person or a wily animal, there are widespread taboo practices, such as...
     
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    Roman Religion
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Origins and Development The indigenous Italic religion, which was the nucleus of the religion of ancient Rome, was essentially animistic. It depended on the belief that forces or spirits, called numina (sing., numen ), existed in natural objects and controlled...
     

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