HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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People are organized into family groups and clans
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Spirits exist in nature and play a role in everyday life
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There is only one god
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Storytellers are godlike beings who keep history alive
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Detailed explanation-1: -Animism (from Latin: anima meaning ‘breath, spirit, life’) is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things-animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words-as animated and alive.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to an oft-quoted definition from the Victorian anthropologist E. B. Tylor, animists believe in the “animation of all nature”, and are characterized as having “a sense of spiritual beings… inhabiting trees and rocks and waterfalls”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Broadly defined, animism is the belief that everything has a spirit: trees, birds, rainstorms, rocks.
Detailed explanation-4: -Simply put, animism is a worldview which states that all beings, humans, animals, plants, lands, and waters, live within an interconnected web of spirituality. Animism applies personhood and agency to non-human beings.