या एनीमिज्म के सिद्धांत से संबंधित

animistic's Usage Examples:

Two animistic theories of the origin of religion have been put forward, the one, often termed the "ghost theory," mainly associated with the name of Herbert Spencer, but also maintained by Grant Allen, refers the beginning of religion to the cult of dead human beings; the other, put forward by Dr E.

Animistic in many of their features too are the temporary gods of fetishism, naguals or familiars, genii and even the dead who receive a cult.

All over the world agricultural peoples practise elaborate ceremonies explicable, as Mannhardt has shown, on animistic principles.

With the rise of species, deities and the cult of individual animals, the path towards anthropomorphization and polytheism is opened and the respect paid to animals tends to lose its strict animistic character.

In philosophy the Jains are the most thorough-going supporters of the old animistic position.

The Maoris ate their enemies' hearts to gain their courage, but to whatever degree animistic beliefs may have once contributed to their cannibalism, it is certain that long before Captain Cook's visit religious sanction for the custom had long given place to mere gluttonous enjoyment.

His world-conception is highly animistic. He feels the thrill of life everywhere, in plants, earth, stars, the total universe.

There is, however, no proof that the belief is animistic in the proper sense.

This animistic tendency is a marked characteristic of primitive Man in every land.

The animistic origin of religion is therefore not proven.

animistic's Meaning':

of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism