WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Animism, in some form or other, has been the dominant religious tradition across all human societies since our ancestors first left Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although the term ‘animism’ can be traced to the Latin anima for breath, life, or spirit, Tylor borrowed it from George Ernst Stahl, an eighteenth-century chemist and physician, who proposed that the spirits or souls of living beings or things control physical processes in the body.

Detailed explanation-3: -The key difference between animism and animatism is that in animism, we speak of individual spiritual beings that have specific personalities, but in animatism, this is not the case. In animatism, the belief is of a supernatural power that lacks a personality but is everywhere.