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Beyond Buddhism and animism: A psychometric test of the structure of Burmese Theravada Buddhism. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 Anthropologists and religious scholars have long debated the relationship between doctrinal Theravada Buddhism, so-called 'animism', and other folk practices in southeast Asian societies. A variety of models of this relationship have been proposed on the
Stanford M, Jong J.
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Philosophy Compass, 2022 Abstract ‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to the capacity to have subjective experiences with a positive or negative valence, such as pain or pleasure. We review recent controversies regarding sentience in fish and invertebrates and consider the deep methodological ...
Browning, Heather, Birch, Jonathan
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Vaikimine, rääkimine ja muud traditsioonilised kõneteod vepsa rahvakultuuris kultuuridevahelises võrdluses [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2020 In this article we analyse factors that help interpret silence and speaking in different cultures. Economic activities and lifestyle related to natural conditions as well as beliefs are crucial here.
Madis Arukask, Eva Saar
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The Cooperative Spirit of Nature in the Kalevala Creation Myth: An Argument for Modern Animism
Challenges, 2022 The Finnish Kalevala epic contains a world-creation myth that exemplifies the essential cooperation between humans and the nature spirits that inhabit the land.
Christina M. Gant
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Ontology, ethnography, archaeology: an afterword on the ontography of things [PDF]
, 2009 In commenting on the preceding articles of the Special Section, this afterword elaborates on the methodological and analytical implications for archaeology of the ontological alterity of animist phenomena.
Holbraad, M
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010 AbstractThe main topics in the study of animal cognition are reviewed with special reference to direct links to human, and in particular developmental, cognitive sciences. The material is organized with regard to the general idea that biological organisms would be endowed with a small set of separable systems of core knowledge, a prominent hypothesis ...
G. Vallortigara +4 more
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Religions, 2023 How do cosmological visions unsettle animistic and scientific ways of approaching the world? Whereas ‘cosmovisions’ have the narrow meaning of ‘worldviews’, people unleash new ‘cosmological visions’ through the creative act of relating to—and ...
Katherine Swancutt
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DIN, 2023 Nordic Animism has become one of the more significant new theologies within the modern Pagan and Heathen community. Based on a counter-reading of earlier, often colonial, interpretations of religions that was perceived to belong to a more primitive form ...
Fredrik Gregorius
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Plant Life and More-than-human Agency in Zainab Amadahy’s Resistance
New Horizons in English Studies, 2021 For centuries humans have acted as if the environment was passive and as if the agency was related only to human beings. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers, scholars, and artists express the need to narrate tales about the multitudes of the ...
Paula Wieczorek
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Ecophilosophy in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2022 This paper examines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ecophilosophy in “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by focusing on his various representations of the natural environment and the human relationship to it.
Mnassar Sabri
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