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How have human cultures engaged with and thought about animals, plants, rocks, clouds, and other elements in their natural surroundings? Do animals and other natural objects have a spirit or soul? What is their relationship to humans? In this new study, Graham Harvey explores current and past animistic beliefs and practices of Native Americans, Maori, Aboriginal Australians, and eco-pagans. He considers the varieties of animism found in these cultures as well as their shared desire to live respectfully within larger natural communities. Drawing on his extensive casework, Harvey also considers the linguistic, performative, ecological, and activist implications of these different animisms.
Price: $150.00
Pages: 262
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
26 October 2005
Trim Size: 5.50 X 8.60 in
ISBN: 9780231137003
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / General, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal, RELIGION / Mysticism, RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Paganism & Neo-Paganism, RELIGION / Wicca (see also BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft), BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Entheogens & Visionary Substances, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Shamanism, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, NATURE / Animal Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
No recent author has emphasized it or dealt with its implications as thoroughly as Harvey.Choice
Graham Harvey (PhD, Religion, Newcastle) is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, London. He is the author of Animism: Respecting the Living World (Columbia/Hurst, 2005), Food, Sex, and Strangers: Understanding Religion in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2013), and Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism 2/e (Hurst/NYU, 1997) and the editor of a number of books, including Handbook of Contemporary Animusm (Routledge, 2013), The Paganism Reader (Routledge, 2004), Shamanism: A Reader (Routledge, 2003), Indigenous Religions: A Companion (Palgrave, 2000), and Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses (Equinox, 2018).
Part. I. From derogatory to critical term
1. From primitives to persons
Part. II. Animist case studies
2. Ojibwe language
3. Maori arts
4. Aboriginal law and land
5. Eco-pagan activism
Part. III. Animist issues
6. Signs of life and personhood
7. Death
8. Spirits, powers, creators and souls
9. Shamans
10. Cannibalism
11. Totems
12. Elders and ethics
Part. IV. Animism's challenges
13. Environmentalisms
14. Consciousness
15. Philosophers and persons