animism
Animism (from Latin animus "soul; feeling, mind") stands for:
- Animism (religion) , belief in the all-soulfulness of nature and the theory of religion of the 19th century
- Animism (psychology) , according to Jean Piaget, a stage in the mental development of young children
- Animism (psychosomatics) , disease theory by Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734)
See also:
- Siberian animism (shamanism)
- Animatism (preanimism)
- Animalism (man as part of the animal world)
Wiktionary: Animism - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
