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The local bomoh will attest to a combination of animistic, and pagan practices with Islam.— shanghai fish
The all-pervading Chinese view of nature as animistic, as inhabited by spirits or souls, gave to their astronomy a character not unknown in the West, but at a scholarly level made it markedly less well structured.— The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
It consists of animistic, theological and dualistic habits of thought, issuing in utopianism and non-materialistic idealism.— Socialism: Positive and Negative
[26] It is in origin pre-animistic, i.e. it is not so much believed to emanate from a spirit residing in the object, as from some occult miasmatic quality.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
It has also been defined as the explanation of all natural phenomena, not due to obvious material causes, by attributing them to spiritual agencies According to this view, the majority of superstitious fancies are of animistic origin.— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

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