RELIGIONS
ANIMISM
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Question
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after death the soul is reborn in another human form
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holy wars must be fought to gain entry into heaven
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meditation leads followers to nirvana
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spirits of nature inhabit all living and nonliving objects
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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: -animism: A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
Detailed explanation-4: -Broadly defined, animism is the belief that everything has a spirit: trees, birds, rainstorms, rocks.