2. Edward Burnett Tylor
⢠English anthropologist
(2 October 1832 â 2 January 1917)
⢠founder of cultural anthropology
⢠Primitive Culture (1871)
3. Animism
⢠Came from the Latin word âAnimaâ which
mean âSoulâ
⢠Origin of the Religion
⢠Is the doctrine or theory of the soul
⢠Coined by the anthropologist E.B. Tylor
⢠ââAnimismââ
4. Beliefs
⢠Anthropomorphism and personification lie at the heart of
animism. Followers endow animals, plants and even
inanimate objects
⢠Animism focuses on the metaphysical universe, with
specific focus on the concept of the immaterial soul.
⢠In life, animists seek to appease the spirit world. In death,
practitioners typically believe that a person's soul joins the
spirit world.
⢠Animistic belief systems hold that the spirit survives
physical death, often passing to an easier world of
abundant game or ever-ripe crops, while in other systems
the spirit remains on earth as a ghost, often malignant (or
combinations of both of these beliefs).
⢠From the belief in the survival of the dead arose the
practice of offering food, lighting fires, etc, at the grave,
later developing into a kind of ancestor worship.