animismn.

1832 Edinb. Rev. 55 472 Discussing the Animism of Stahl.

1864 Sat. Rev. 10 Dec. 726/1 All spiritual belief came to be laughed at... There was no more account of Stahl and ‘animism’. Nothing but sheer materialism remained.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. xi. 384 I purpose here, under the name of Animism, to investigate the deep-lying doctrine of Spiritual Beings, which embodies the very essence of Spiritualistic as opposed to Materialistic philosophy... The sense of Spiritualism in..the general doctrine of spiritual beings, is here given to Animism.

1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 173 He [sc. Stahl] thus stands forth at the close of the seventeenth century as the founder of ‘animism’, which doctrine..maintained itself in many minds through the two succeeding centuries, and exists at the present day.

1941 B. J. Stern Society & Med. Progress i. 28 At that time the ‘animism’ of Stahl,..the ‘iatrochemical’ and ‘iatro-physical’ and ‘Old Vienna’ schools were popular in different medical circles.

2002 J. H. Zammito Kant, Herder & Birth Anthropol. vi. 233 The animism of Stahl is one of the linchpins for an effective understanding of what was taking place in the life sciences in the late eighteenth century.

2004 tr. A. Lalande in N. Gross & R. A. Jones Durkheim's Philos. Lect. lxxii. 286 More recently,..animism has been revived with more moderation and good sense by Francisque Bouiller in a book titled The Vital Principle and the Thinking Soul.

1866 Fortn. Rev. 15 Aug. 84 The theory which endows the phenomena of nature with personal life might be conveniently called Animism.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 45 The animism of the ruder tribes of India.

1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World i. 15 Polytheism..takes very largely the form of animism.

1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. ii. 21 Primitive animism may be extinct in Britain,..but it is very much alive in parts of Assam, Borneo, and Polynesia.

1973 Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 123 219 Piaget..observed that many preadolescent children tend to ascribe life and consciousness to inert objects, a phenomenon that he called ‘animism’.

1999 Piecework Nov.–Dec. 23 Their folk religion was based on animism or the attribution of a spirit or conscious life to material forms.

1869 Appleton's Jrnl. 31 July 567/1 Animism is the doctrine of all men who believe in active spiritual beings; it is essentially the antagonist of materialism.

1880 J. Rae in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 615 The universality of what Mr. Tylor calls Animism, the belief in spiritual and unseen agencies.

1900 Folk-lore June 165 Animism..signifies ‘the belief in the existence of Spiritual Beings’, that is to say, of ‘spirits’ in the wide sense that includes ‘souls’.

1931 G. F. Stout Mind & Matter vi. 112 An original animism which the materialist..must regard as illusory.

1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 807/1 This new view of neuropsychology..bridges the gap between animism and materialism and transcends both.

1993 T. Conley tr. G. Deleuze Fold (2006) viii. 138 A double operation of transcendental actualization and realization (animism and materialism).