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Animism and Philosophy of Religion

Part of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Book Series

Editors: Smith, Tiddy

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94170-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-94169-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 26, 2023

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Introduction

Smith, Tiddy

Pages: 1 –22

[Nobody cares about animism; well, nobody in philosophy departments at least. Search through the archives of a few of the leading philosophy journals and you will be hard-pressed to find the topic as much as mentioned. Incredibly, this lack of interest persists even within the very subdiscipline...
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Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Critical Perspective

Wilkinson, Darryl

Pages: 23 –43

[The first thing that anyone learns about animism is that the word is most closely associated with the nineteenth-century anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. Many others have since used the term, but none have escaped the intellectual shadow cast by Tylor, perhaps most of all those who have...
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Wilkinson’s “Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion”

Guthrie, Stewart

Pages: 45 –61

[Wilkinson’s chapter is bold and ambitious, broadly criticizing the cognitive science of religion (CSR), an interdisciplinary field of study a few decades old and widely acknowledged as the growth area in the study of religion. In the course of his critique, Wilkinson questions—appropriately, in...
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Edward Tylor’s Animism and Its Intellectual Aftermath

Rosa, Frederico Delgado

Pages: 63 –93

[Animism as an anthropological concept was launched by British evolutionary anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), whose two-volume book Primitive Culture (1871) was extremely influential for over three decades in Britain and beyond. Tylor’s ideas were followed by armchair...
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Animisms: Practical Indigenous Philosophies

De Smedt, Johan; De Cruz, Helen

Pages: 95 –122

[In this chapter, we focus on animism and how it is studied in the cognitive science of religion and cultural anthropology. We argue that philosophers of religion still use (outdated) normative notions from early scientific studies of religion that go back at least a century and that have since...
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New Animism as Cultural Critique?

Burley, Mikel

Pages: 123 –151

[This chapter analyses the phenomenon of new animism in the light of the notion of cultural critique borrowed from work by anthropologists such as George Marcus and Michael Fischer. In developing the analysis, a distinction is drawn between affirmatory new animism and a critical approach to new...
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Animism and Naturalism: Practice and Theory

Dawes, Gregory W.

Pages: 153 –177

[If animism is regarded as an ontology—a set of beliefs regarding the kinds of entities that exist—it is incompatible with naturalism: the idea that the only causal entities and powers are those identified by our best science. But an enactivist and practice-based theory of knowledge enables us to...
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Sensible Animism

Fales, Evan

Pages: 179 –197

[Animistic religious thought is extremely widespread, and can be found even in religions practiced by “modern” societies. But it is commonly thought to bear the hallmarks of “primitive” thinking processes, which in the anthropological tradition have typically been taken to involve various...
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Animism: Its Scope and Limits

Oppy, Graham

Pages: 199 –226

[What should we be animists about? This chapter aims to answer that question. I begin by distinguishing between ontological and ideological formulations of animism. I suggest that plausible forms of animism will be merely ideological, and I distinguish between full-strength and...
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Scientific Animism

Steinhart, Eric

Pages: 227 –255

[Animism has been defined in many ways. Tylor defines it as the “the theory which endows the phenomena of nature with personal life” (1866: 82). Bird-David lists several definitions of animism: “the attribution of life or divinity to such natural phenomena as trees, thunder, or celestial bodies”;...

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