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All in all, one should be fully aware that the excessive de-greening of Japanese cities may further weaken or endanger animistic culture in Japan. Without healthy and robust animism, how can Japan be ...
Animism is not a religion or even a set of beliefs about nature having a soul. ... 2019, photo, Shinto priests attend a ritual for the Chichibu Night Festival in Chichibu, north of Tokyo, Japan.
Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, began his life in Greece, but became one of the most important international literary ...
Animism is therefore not a religion but a term for classifying a type of religion, one which was, in the 1870s at least, deemed by European and American scholars to be less civilized.
Animism was, in Tylor’s view, the first stage in the evolution of religion, which developed from animism to polytheism and then to monotheism, which was the most “civilized” form of religion.