Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism?

Most people in sub-Saharan Africa are Christian. Christians and Muslims grew rapidly in number in the region from 2010 to ...

Robert Macfarlane’s meditation on the life and times of great waterways poses many perplexing questions but answers few.

while revealing himself as an animist, of being unfair to the opponents of animism.

Raja Parba is celebrated in honour of Bhudevi or Bhumi, the Hindu earth goddess of fertility. According to folklore, the ...

Strawberry Fanta, also known as "Fanta red water," is almost always found outside of the small shrines called spirit houses ...

LAMPANG - Passengers on a night coach from Nakhon Ratchasima to Chiang Mai were left shaken after discovering a man had died during the journey. The bus ...

Although Buddhism is the leading religion in Thailand, and by proxy Thai Town, the cultivation of spirit houses and the offerings that go along with them actually originates from animism mixed ...

I’ve never been much concerned with what happened in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1387. I suspect that may even be true ...