THE result of recent historical studies whether on anthropological sociological archeological or religious lines has brought into ever clearer vision as the substratum of all civilizations that stage of culture from which this book takes its title. One consequence... Lees meer.

This book explores the misconception of nature in the West since the birth of modern philosophy and the devastating impact that this has had in practice. Drawing on recent anthropological work it proposes a radical alternative cosmology to make sense of mind and matter... Lees meer.

The first scientific-iconological survey ever on the most traditional and most topicalized genre in Japanese arts Fuji Painting from its origin in antiquity in the 9th century through the Middle Ages Sansui-Painting in especial to its apex in Edo Ukiyoe Painting... Lees meer.

Over the past few hundred years animism has been dismissed as a primitive naive and irrational perspective irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation drawn in crayon that each tree... Lees meer.

An ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. This book focuses on the practical implications of living in a hall-of-mirrors world - one inhabited by h... Lees meer.

2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNER In a time of rapid climate change and species extinction what role have the world s religions played in ameliorating or causing the crisis we now face. Religion in general and Christianity in particular appears to bear a disproportionate bu... Lees meer.

This book challenges the prevailing worldviews of materialism and dualism outlines the alternatives presenting animism as a radically different yet mature and coherent philosophy.... Lees meer.

Sacred Nature. Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions is the second volume of the series Material Religion in Antiquity MaReA . The book collects the proceedings of the international online workshop carrying the same title organized by CAMNES SoRS on 20 21 May... Lees meer.

After winning an Oscar for Spirited Away the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki s animated films were dubbed into many languages. Some of the films are saturated with religious themes distinctive to Japanese culture. How were these themes or what Miyazaki describes as... Lees meer.

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Animism is an important part of many religions - from Shinto Hinduism and Buddhism to Paganism and a range of indigenous religions - which connects the spiritual and material and holds that humans might not be unique in possessing souls or in being intentional agen... Lees meer.

Postmodern animism first emerged in grassroots Japan in the aftermath of mercury poisoning in Minamata and the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Fusing critiques of modernity with intangible cultural heritages it represents a philosophy of the life-world where nature i... Lees meer.

Wassily Kandinsky Max Ernst Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of these artists connection with shamanism has been written about separately... Lees meer.

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This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions changing conceptions of land and human-environmental relations. Th... Lees meer.