Difference between revisions of "Animism"
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_86534" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_86534" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body. </p> <p> (2): (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67648" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67648" /> == |
Latest revision as of 17:47, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
(2): (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A belief that there is a psychical body within the physical body of a living being, correspondent with it in attributes, and that when the connection between them is dissolved by death the former lives on in a ghostly form; in other words, a belief of a ghost-soul existing conjointly with and subsisting apart from the body, its physical counterpart.