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How To Use animist In A Sentence

• Thousands of animists joined the Church in 2000 and 1000 adult catechumens are scheduled to be received this Easter.
• Animals are humanized, that is, the kinship between animal and human life is still keenly felt, and this reminds us of those early animistic interpretations of nature which subsequently led to doctrines of metempsychosis. The Art of the Story-Teller
• All Sudanese are Africans, most are Muslim, and the population of Christians is lower than the number of Sudanese who practice African ( "animist") religions. Articles » peoplesworld
• There, the primitive mind practiced animistic shamanism. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
• Traditional Javanese Islam, a blend of Sufism mixed with animist and Hindu concepts predating Islam, shares common heritage with Bali.
• The Jola practice a generally syncretized version of Islam, with a few still holding to animistic ethnic religions. Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized
• If your pantheon is more complex, say you have two competing factions of deities, laid over an older, animist pattern, that tells you a lot about the social evolution of the society: maybe not-Buddhism came along and supplanted not-Shinto. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
• Well, I would say to this that I am very much an animist, and my experience of working with spirits - be they spirits of places, local area networks, or behavioural memes, indicates to me at least, that it is do-able to varying degrees.
• Thus we have evidence of the existence in pre-Buddhist India of rites and beliefs — the latter chiefly of the kind called animistic — disowned for the most part by the Buddhists and only tolerated by the Brahmans. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
• Many people, such as animists, think that all objects are imbued with a spiritual essence. Artificial or Natural