worldviews and lifeways founded on the understanding that the world is a community of living persons (most of whom are other-than-human) deserving respect, in which people learn through life how to show respect in locally appropriate ways
The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter
the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls; "animism is common among primitive peoples
a religion in which animals and plants are believed to have spirits (anima; ANIMAL). Belief in the existence of spirits separable from bodies. Such beliefs are traditionally identified with small-scale ("primitive") societies, though they also occur in major world religions. They were first competently surveyed by Edward Burnett Tylor in Primitive Culture (1871). Classic animism, according to Tylor, consists of attributing conscious life to natural objects or phenomena, a practice that eventually gave rise to the notion of a soul. See also shaman
butun varlıkların ve evrenin bir ruh taşıdığına inanan doktrin
Silbentrennung
bu·tun var·lık·la·rın ve ev·re·nin bir ruh ta·şı·dı·ğı·na i·na·nan dokt·rin