Animistic

The word animistic should have been animalistic ... by ❋ Unknown (2008)

An entirely different class of ideas, also termed animistic, is the belief in the world soul, held by Plato, Schelling and others. ❋ Various (N/A)

Thus we have evidence of the existence in pre-Buddhist India of rites and beliefs — the latter chiefly of the kind called animistic — disowned for the most part by the Buddhists and only tolerated by the Brahmans. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)

My feeling is that the implicit function is the inculcation of abstract systematic thinking - which is necessary for modernizing societies, but is not a spontaneous human attribute (we are naturally 'animistic'). ❋ Unknown (2009)

If this spectacle amazes one to-day, what emotions must it not have aroused in the breasts of the earlier folk, whose outlook on the world was so much more direct than ours -- more 'animistic' if you like! ❋ Edward Carpenter (1886)

His enthusiasm of knowledge is literally an enthusiasm: has about it that character of possession of one person by another, by which those "animistic" old Greeks explained natural madness. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

Familiaris, though they attained great dignity of conception, and were the centre of the family life, and to some extent of the family morality, never quite rose to the position of full-grown gods; while among the spirits of the field the wildness and impishness of character associated with Faunus and his companion Inuus -- almost the cobolds or hobgoblins of the flocks -- reflects clearly the old 'animistic' belief in the natural evilness of the spirits and their hostility to men. ❋ Cyril Bailey (1914)

The term Animism may, as far as I can see, be quite well applied to the social affiliation, for the latter is evidently only a case in which the individual projects his own degree of consciousness into the human group around him instead of into the animals or the trees, but it is a case of which the justice is so obvious that the modern man can intellectually seize and understand it, and consequently he does not tar it with the 'animistic' brush. ❋ Edward Carpenter (1886)

a pithy essay on the irrelevance of the notion of authenticity and the "animistic" attitude that has taken shape in response to the boundless online population of modified images; ❋ Brian Droitcour (2009)

There, the primitive mind practiced animistic shamanism. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

As an animistic spiritual occupant of the formed Nature realm, every season contributes something new, as does my emotional reaction to each season. ❋ Kelley Harrell (2012)

The three are in many ways indistinguishable, the product of a unique form of Hinduism that incorporates older animistic and ancestor-worship practices, as well as borrowings from places like Java and China. ❋ David Littlejohn (2011)

Mazikin are a class of sheydim (animistic spirits) that pervaded the natural world in the Rabbinic Jewish worldview of late antiquity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What I tried to present as accurately as I could was an animistic world view. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have one more reservation, the same as expressed by Ross Douthat in the New York Times - there is no resolution for the world in returning to animistic religion, which our ancestors abandoned for good (and forgotten) reasons over the past three thousand years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But then she takes it further, absorbing the animistic outlook of Shinto and such concepts as mono no aware and using them to model the film as a meta-presentation of the philosophies that drive the country's appreciation of the natural world. ❋ Unknown (2010)