Dr. Carlos Segovia (Humanities and Social Sciences), whose current research focuses on both contemporary animism and the correlation between poetry, mythology and tragedy in post-nihilistic times, ...

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Vol. 173, No. 4, Special Issue: New Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java (2017), pp. 552-558 (7 pages) Bird-David, Nurit (1999). ‘Animism’ Revisited.

Here I look at E.B. Tylor's classic work Primitive culture, particularly that aspect that deals with animism. I discuss several of the critiques of animism, showing how most of them have actually ...

Ann McBride Norton sends us an audio postcard from China. It's from the Yunnan province, where she encounters the last of the Dongbas, priests for the ancient animist religion of the Naxi people, an ...

CAREY ISLAND, Malaysia (RNS) — The ceremony takes place over four days, in which shamans and villagers visit different points on the rivers and seashores where boats have sunk in the past. CAREY ...

THE PLACE of religion in the life and culture of Indonesia is often rather difficult to explain to Westerners. Yet in a certain sense religion embodies the whole meaning of life on our islands, and ...

The rites began at dawn, as they do every year on the first morning of the Mongolian spring. By noon, hundreds of faithful were gathered around the master shaman Byambadorj as he channelled the spirit ...