A Zen approach to the World the Universe and Everything. Many of today s disenfranchised pagans in the West appear to be seeking a spiritual connection to life without feeling the need to become a witch a Wiccan a shaman Heathen or a Druid. Here the Shinto approach... Lees meer.

Graham Harvey explores current and past animistic beliefs and practices of Native Americans Maori Aboriginal Australians and eco-pagans. He considers the varieties of animism found in these cultures as well as their shared desire to live respectfully within larger na... Lees meer.

The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. Animism is an important part of many religions - from Shinto Hinduism and Buddhism to Paganism and a range of indi... Lees meer.

The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and... Lees meer.

Originally published in 1905 this is a detailed look at the development of belief and religion. Contents include. Prehuman Elements in Religion Brain in Animal and Man Naturalism or Conception of Power Everywhere Nature of Spirit Spirits in Inanimate Things Objec... Lees meer.

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Come follow the Cosmic Christ on the path of the green priesthood deep into the heart of a living web of Divine Creation. Christian animism for many can suggest nothing more than crude syncretism or a blasphemous oxymoron. In this book the author challenges that vi... Lees meer.

Just be yourself - is what people tell us is what we tell ourselves. But what does Being Your Self actually mean. Is it an understanding. a sensation. a feeling. How does it feel like to be yourself. ...And can you imagine what it feels like to be someo... Lees meer.

Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous ontological turn a re turn to things and a relational turn and also debating a new animism . It is increasingly recognised that the boundar... Lees meer.

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In very simple terms animism could be described as a form of religion. There is much to indicate that many thousands of years ago at the beginning of the Palaeolithic period animism already constituted the basis of the religious behaviour of people living at that time... Lees meer.

The book explores animism through the lens of four prominent figures in Japan. film director Miyazaki Hayao sociologist Tsurumi Kazuko writer Ishimure Michiko and Minamata fisherman-philosopher Ogata Masato. Taking a biographical approach it illustrates how they ca... Lees meer.

Animism . Or Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples by George William Gilmore Animism. Or Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples written by legendary author George William Gilmore is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic and historical texts of all t... Lees meer.

From the Preface. When some seven years ago I took up the duties of stipendiary magistrate medical officer and protector of Indians in this mosquito-cursed district of the Pomeroon I determined upon devoting all my spare time and there has been plenty of it to an... Lees meer.