Shamans from the organization Tengeri conduct an offering ritual in 2013 to Bukhe Bator, the spirit master of the Selenga River, Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation. Roberto Quijada, CC BY-NC A ...

Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, advances an interesting point about animism. Broadly defined, animism is the belief ...

Tanya Tagaq hails from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and has developed a modified form of Inuit throat singing. The rapid-fire exchange of gasping and growling breaths between two singers becomes, in her ...

The following comments, from chronicle.com:, are about the article “The New Atheists’ Narrow Worldview,” by Stephen T. Asma, The Chronicle Review, January 28). This article is typical of a certain ...

Around the world, a movement is gaining momentum that grants legal rights to natural phenomena, including rivers, lakes and mountains. Robert Macfarlane investigates the rise of the new animism On 26 ...

Director Bill Spahic on his new documentary about the people who love the Eiffel Tower, a ferris wheel and other inanimate objects You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

(The Conversation) — Animism describes religions in which humans are connected to the landscape around them but do not dominate it. (The Conversation) — A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks ...

A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining a following around the globe. Most of these people are using animism in a ...

A movement known as“ ,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, . New animist environmental activists are not the only ones using the term. Animism itself has ...