1866, reintroduced by English anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Taylor (1832-1917), who defined it (1871) as the "theory of the universal animation of nature," from Latin anima "life, breath, soul" (see animus) + -ism.
Earlier sense was of "doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul" (1832), from German Animismus, coined c. 1720 by physicist/chemist Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) based on the concept of the anima mundi. Animist is attested from 1819, in Stahl's sense; animisic is first recorded 1871.
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1. In modern arthropology, animism as a theory has little significance, other than historical.
在现代人类学中, 泛灵论作为理论来说, 除具有历史意义外,已没有多大意义.
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2. Believers, animism and shamanism, some Protestant and Catholic Christianity.
多信万物有灵和萨满教, 部分信基督教新教和天主教.
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3. There is no theory which could go deep into human's mind animism.
没有一种理论能像泛灵论这样深入人心.
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4. This thesis explores the animism in The Old Man and the Sea.
