| Vedic Invocations, which are deemed animistic and crudely pagan by many scholars, merely invoke God through his attributes and functions. |
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| The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors. |
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| The ancient Pacific religions have been animistic religions, that is very, very close relationships between human and the natural elements. |
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| The animistic overtones of the book, and its intimations of love and death, made a deep impression. |
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| He has a long-standing affinity for situating cartoony figures in various biblically scaled cataclysms and animistic riots of imperiled architecture. |
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| The religion of the mudang was polytheistic and somewhat animistic. |
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| The tribal groups are animistic, constantly making offerings to the myriad spirits believed to inhabit the village, houses, trees, paths, mountains etc. |
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| They are also unified conceptually by the fact that all have to do with water spirits and the symbolism of Japan's indigenous animistic religion, Shinto. |
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| In his religiously inspired work too, he was able to maintain his animistic vision and to safeguard this thematic from triviality. |
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| Hoa Hao is an amalgam of Buddhism, ancestor worship, animistic rites, elements of Confucian doctrine, and indigenous Vietnamese practices. |
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| Their basic social and economic unit was the nuclear family, and their religion was animistic. |
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| However, all the animistic worldview has to offer is a system of fear that produces, at best, only superficial unity, purity and peace. |
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| This practice is derived from animistic religions, which believe that there are unique spirits living in natural objects. |
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| Through an animistic vision of the world, the objects and the people I paint are imbued with a soul, a secret life. |
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| It is very improbable that the convinced animistic give off motu proprio the objects used in these rites. |
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| This is our dialogue of creation: a poet who reads space and animistic farmers inventing graphic designs to express the same thing, in tandem. |
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| The methods usually combine good social principles with pagan rituals that spring from the animistic worldview. |
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| I ended up with something like transcendental animistic chaos with stress on the importance if imminent divinity when I was done with it, which has worked well for me so far. |
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| Whether it be about the reality of the strength that it ought to demonstrate in animistic magic, or one of the imaginary universe in traditional theater acting, puppets have that advantage as a medium. |
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| There is Sami music, called the joik, which is a type of chant which is part of the traditional Sami animistic spirituality. |
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| Professional literature describes this as animistic. |
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| The animistic nature of folk beliefs is an anthropological cultural universal. |
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| They practiced a form of animistic pantheism, much of which has survived in the form of folklore and numerous myths. |
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| He was able to demonstrate his animistic vision in a series of sculptures, which give shape to an imaginary world of idealised expressions of the key moments in life. |
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| Popular Buddhism in Southeast Asia also reflects the importance of family and has incorporated animistic beliefs. |
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| In many ways, their perspective was typically animistic and encompassed every aspect of the world around them. |
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| Daniel and Fatima, a young Brazilian couple, heard about the unreached animistic tribes in the Amazon Basin and decided to go and do something about it. |
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| In the western Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, most people are Mahayana Buddhists with beliefs consisting of a mixture ofTantric and animistic pre-Buddhist Bon influences. |
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| There may be offertory plays at harvest time or animistic, ritualistic exorcisms protecting children from being devoured by the voracious god Kala. |
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| While most pagan religions express a world view that is pantheistic, polytheistic or animistic, there are some monotheistic pagans. |
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| The whole area around the town has a reputation as a hotbed of ancestor worship and idolatry, and has been known for decades as a place under the influence of widespread animistic practices. |
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| A basic element of the animistic belief system is that these souls must remain in harmony to sustain health. |
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| Anciently, the religion of the Cornish Britons was Celtic polytheism, a pagan, animistic faith, assumed to be led by Druids in full or in part. |
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| These local craftsmen interpreted the European tradition for the express purpose of creating a total environment that was at once Baroque and animistic. |
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| I suppose that what we were all standing staring at that night in Quebec City was some sort of animistic understanding about the dream breaking free. |
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| Every animistic practice is geared to meet a certain human need. |
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| While most pagan religions express a worldview that is pantheistic, polytheistic, or animistic, there are some monotheistic pagans. |
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