Shamans from the organization Tengeri conduct an offering ritual in 2013 to Bukhe Bator, the spirit master of the Selenga River, Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation. Roberto Quijada, CC BY-NC A ...

Tanya Tagaq hails from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and has developed a modified form of Inuit throat singing. The rapid-fire exchange of gasping and growling breaths between two singers becomes, in her ...

Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, advances an interesting point about animism. Broadly defined, animism is the belief ...

The following comments, from chronicle.com:, are about the article “The New Atheists’ Narrow Worldview,” by Stephen T. Asma, The Chronicle Review, January 28). This article is typical of a certain ...

Around the world, a movement is gaining momentum that grants legal rights to natural phenomena, including rivers, lakes and mountains. Robert Macfarlane investigates the rise of the new animism On 26 ...

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should ...

(The Conversation) — A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining a following around the globe. Most of these people ...

A christmas star shines outside a house in Anatongre village, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) northeast of Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006.

A movement known as“ ,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, . New animist environmental activists are not the only ones using the term. Animism itself has ...