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 ...

With tongues in cheeks, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett are embracing their reputation as the “Four Horsemen.” Lampooning the anxieties of evangelicals, these ...

(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 christmas star shines outside a house in Anatongre village, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) northeast of Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006.

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 ...