14 2b: Animism
The Seminoles of South east America have the custom of holding a child very close to the nostrils of a dying mother so that the life force of the mother may well come to the child. Amongst the Karibs the word iouanni refer to heart or life or soul. One characteristic of all animistic religions is theirparticularism, a quality opposite to the universalism of the larger “world religions”. This is…Read More