Animism


Animism: Respecting the Living World
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Acumen Handbooks)
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
A Language Older Than Words
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature
The City Is a Labyrinth: A Walking Guide for Urban Animists
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
Hellenism in Late Antiquity by Glen W. BowersockPower and Persuasion in Late Antiquity by Peter         BrownA Chronicle of the Last Pagans by Pierre ChuvinPagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety by E.R. DoddsThe Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe
Books On Hellenic Genocide
35 books — 1 voter
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism by Graham HarveyThe Spell of the Sensuous by David AbramBecoming Animal by David AbramVibrant Matter by Jane BennettThe Enchantment of Modern Life by Jane Bennett
animism reading list
16 books — 1 voter

Indigenous Religions by Ann Marie B. BahrIndigenous Religions by Graham HarveyAnimism by Graham   HarveyThe Deities Are Many by Jordan PaperNear-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions by Gregory Shushan
Ethnic religions
100 books — 1 voter
Animal Speak by Ted AndrewsGift of the Dreamtime - Awakening to the Divinity of Trauma by S. Kelley HarrellThe Way of the Shaman by Michael HarnerThe Power of Shamanism and Energy Medicine by Sheldon ShalleyFully Alive by Tyler Gage
Resources on Modern Shamanism
104 books — 72 voters

This does not mean (as is so often thought) that primitive man, in order to explain natural phenomena, imparts human characteristics to an inanimate world. Primitive man simply does not know an inanimate world. For this very reason he does not 'personify' inanimate phenomena nor does he fill an empty world with the ghosts of the dead, as 'animism' would have us believe. The world appears to primitive man neither inanimate nor empty but redundant with life; and life has individuality, in man and ...more
Henri Frankfort, Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man

People forget that humans are animals too, that we're just as much a part of the wild places as the things that live in them. ...more
Vincent H. O'Neil. O'Neil, Interlands

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