animism

animism

One of the basic concepts of 18th century evolutionary theory of religion popularized by R.B Taylor in his primitive culture. Even Spencer supported the idea that animism was the universal and earliest form of religion practice. Taylor explained the prevalence of animistic beliefs by conjecturing that belief in animism among the primitive people provides an explanation for such phenomena as death, hearing the echo, seeing one's image in water etc.

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