animism

/an-uh-miz-uhm/US // ˈæn əˌmɪz əm //UK // (ˈænɪˌmɪzəm) //

泛灵论,万物有灵论,泛神论,泛灵主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls.
- : the belief that natural objects have souls that may exist apart from their material bodies.
- : the doctrine that the soul is the principle of life and health.
- : belief in spiritual beings or agencies.

Instead, Dido might have engaged in small, everyday spiritual acts similar to those we see in animism, where spirits reside in all things rather than a handful of powerful deities.
This was a new and sophisticated republication of savage animism.
Hence Animism, Totemism, and their numerous subsidiary developments.
Animism, an′im-izm, n. a theory which regards the belief in separate spiritual existences as the germ of religious ideas.
This represents a particular form of animism, for the soul of the ancestor is thought to become a god.
The sacrificial object is regarded as having a soul, quite in the sense of early animism.