ANİMİZM
ANIMISM
Author(s): David ChidesterContributor(s): Tuğba Aydoğan (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Animism; E. B. Tylor; spiritualism; anthropology of religion; materialism;
Summary/Abstract: Coined by the anthropologist E. B. Tylor (1832–1917), the term “animism” refers not to a type of religion but to a theory of religion. Asserting a minimal definition of religion as “belief in spiritual beings,” Tylor argued that religious belief originated in the primordial mistake of attributing life, soul, or spirit to inanimate objects. Although it has generally been dismissed in the academic study of religion as an obsolete term for describing the belief systems of indigenous people who hold that natural phenomena have souls or spirits, animism has nevertheless persisted in popular usage and academic theory to raise problems about the meaning and value of materiality in religion.
Journal: Motif Akademi Halkbilimi Dergisi
- Issue Year: 14/2021
- Issue No: 33
- Page Range: 427-433
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Turkish