How To Use Animistic In A Sentence
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Animals are humanized, that is, the kinship between animal and human life is still keenly felt, and this reminds us of those early animistic interpretations of nature which subsequently led to doctrines of metempsychosis.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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They are also unified conceptually by the fact that all have to do with water spirits and the symbolism of Japan's indigenous animistic religion, Shinto.
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The animistic overtones of the book, and its intimations of love and death, made a deep impression.
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I ended up with something like transcendental animistic chaos with stress on the importance if imminent divinity when I was done with it, which has worked well for me so far.
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But it is difficult in practice to distinguish the two phases of thought and no clear account of animatism can yet be given, largely on the ground that no people has yet been discovered which has not already developed to a greater or less extent an animistic philosophy.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Perhaps 3 million Burmese, mostly Karens, Kachins, Chins, and Lisu, are Christians who accept animistic rituals like the Burmans, who are mostly Theravada Buddhists.
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Is the Sodom story, even, a necessary step in constructing an aniconic, ascetic, abstracted concept of the divine needed to get from an animistic understanding of nature to a mechanistic -- i.e. scientific -- understanding?
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
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The tribal groups are animistic, constantly making offerings to the myriad spirits believed to inhabit the village, houses, trees, paths, mountains etc.
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The religion of the mudang was polytheistic and somewhat animistic.
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The term Animism may, as far as I can see, be quite well applied to the social affiliation, for the latter is evidently only a case in which the individual projects his own degree of consciousness into the human group around him instead of into the animals or the trees, but it is a case of which the justice is so obvious that the modern man can intellectually seize and understand it, and consequently he does not tar it with the 'animistic' brush.
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
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My feeling is that the implicit function is the inculcation of abstract systematic thinking - which is necessary for modernizing societies, but is not a spontaneous human attribute (we are naturally 'animistic').
School Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors.
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If this spectacle amazes one to-day, what emotions must it not have aroused in the breasts of the earlier folk, whose outlook on the world was so much more direct than ours -- more 'animistic' if you like!
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
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The ancient Pacific religions have been animistic religions, that is very, very close relationships between human and the natural elements.
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On theoretical grounds it is probable that animatism preceded animism; but savage thought is no more consistent than that of civilized man; and it may well be that animistic and panthelistic doctrines are held simultaneously by the same person.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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It is said to have begun before the introduction of Buddhism, when the people of ancient Tibet observed animistic forms of religion and used the foodstuffs they produced as offerings to their gods.
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a pithy essay on the irrelevance of the notion of authenticity and the "animistic" attitude that has taken shape in response to the boundless online population of modified images;
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Vedic Invocations, which are deemed animistic and crudely pagan by many scholars, merely invoke God through his attributes and functions.
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An entirely different class of ideas, also termed animistic, is the belief in the world soul, held by Plato, Schelling and others.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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In the old animistic world view, people believed that nature was organised by invisible souls.
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The Uktena tribe is composed of animistic ( some would say primitive ) peoples from throughout the world.
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My feeling is that the implicit function is the inculcation of abstract systematic thinking - which is necessary for modernizing societies, but is not a spontaneous human attribute (we are naturally 'animistic').
School Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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His enthusiasm of knowledge is literally an enthusiasm: has about it that character of possession of one person by another, by which those "animistic" old Greeks explained natural madness.
Plato and Platonism
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Familiaris, though they attained great dignity of conception, and were the centre of the family life, and to some extent of the family morality, never quite rose to the position of full-grown gods; while among the spirits of the field the wildness and impishness of character associated with Faunus and his companion Inuus -- almost the cobolds or hobgoblins of the flocks -- reflects clearly the old 'animistic' belief in the natural evilness of the spirits and their hostility to men.
The Religion of Ancient Rome
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Thus we have evidence of the existence in pre-Buddhist India of rites and beliefs — the latter chiefly of the kind called animistic — disowned for the most part by the Buddhists and only tolerated by the Brahmans.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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The Jola practice a generally syncretized version of Islam, with a few still holding to animistic ethnic religions.
Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized
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There, the primitive mind practiced animistic shamanism.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
