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  • noun Plural form of animism.

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  • Historians of religion recognize a progression from primitive tribal animisms, through polytheisms such as those of the Greeks, Romans and Norsemen, to monotheisms such as Judaism and its derivatives, Christianity and Islam.

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

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