A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining a following around the globe. Most of these people are using animism in a ...

We’re learning that humans can bond, form attachments and dedicate themselves to non-conscious objects or lifeless things with shocking ease. Consumer Tech Robots When Alexa replied to my question ...

"Nature is the homeland of human begins. Tengri is the deity and the father sky. Earth is mother with rivers nourishing all beings." This mesmerizing animated short film is titled The Fourfold, and it ...

On 30 March 2011, a truly unprecedented event took place at a provincial court in Loja, Equator, located some 270 miles from the capital of Quito. The Vilcabamba River, a plaintiff in a trial there, ...

FROM DEROGATORY TO CRITICAL TERM: From primitives to persons -- ANIMIST CASE STUDIES: Ojibwa / Ojibwe language -- Maori arts -- Aboriginal law and land -- Eco-pagan activism -- ANIMIST ISSUES: Signs ...

Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, advances an interesting point about animism. Broadly defined, animism is the belief ...

The following comments, from chronicle.com:, are about the article “The New Atheists’ Narrow Worldview,” by Stephen T. Asma, The Chronicle Review, January 28). This article is typical of a certain ...

A christmas star shines outside a house in Anatongre village, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) northeast of Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006.

When Alexa replied to my question about the weather by tacking on "Have a nice day," I immediately shot back "You too," and then stared into space, slightly embarrassed. I also found myself ...