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animism

religious worldview
Class type of: traditional religion, animism Q43004
animism
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Facts

9 properties

Identity

Instance of
religion, religion type[4]
More facts +8
Subclass of
traditional religion, animism
Described by source
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[6][7][8][9][10]
Different from
Animeism[12]
Has characteristic
animism[11]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]
OpenStreetMap tag
religion=animist[5]
P14541
36uXaC[15]
Practiced by
animist[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en animistic religion en animism en indigenous religion en indigenous animistic religion ar إحيائي ar الإحيائية ar الأرواحية ar إحيائيه ar أرواحية ar Animism ar الإحيائيون ar إحيائية cs animismus da animisme de Animistisch de Geisterglaube el Ανιμισμός el Ανιματισμός es animismo fa آنیمیست
🔖 Identifiers · 54
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85005293
GND ID
4002067-8
OpenAlex ID
C2780363377
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294898506
ASCRG 2016 ID
6131
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
1201
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300072604
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/1321
BBC Things ID
86bbc89b-9956-404b-ad11-edcfaa967a68
BNCF Thesaurus ID
64870
Banglapedia ID (Bengali)
সর্বপ্রাণবাদ
Bashenc.online ID
81311
Show all 54 identifiers +42
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11953456b
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID
animism
Catholic Encyclopedia ID
01526a
Dewey Decimal Classification
202.1
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
23675
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/animism
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
animisme
Encyclopédie berbère article ID
2509
Freebase ID
/m/0ps_
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID
Animism
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
animista
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0078592, 0078590
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
animisme
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4899669, 1823797
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
animizm-9349bf
Harper's tag
animism
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
animism
KBpedia ID
Animism
Krugosvet article (archived)
kultura_i_obrazovanie/religiya/ANIMIZM.html
Lex ID
animisme
Library of Congress Classification
GN471
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780363377
Museum-digital tag ID
3620
NDL Authority ID
00560260
NL CR AUT ID
ph233630
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007294720205171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3869619
Orthodox Encyclopedia ID
115502
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtQqskF6AKMS
Quora topic ID
Animism
RKD thesaurus ID
80255
RationalWiki ID
Animism
SVKKL authority ID
0327465-animismus
Subreddit
Animism
Topic's main category
Category:Animism
Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID
animismo
UNBIS Thesaurus ID
1000305
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept2468
Vikidia article ID
fr:Animisme
Wellcome Collection concept ID
dzbety5w
YSO ID
6426
Yale LUX ID
concept/ba31e607-b41d-4ce9-97ff-cdadb033612f

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🔗 Connections
← Religion or worldview 103
Cambodia, Zulu people, Inuit, Bantu people, Cherokee, Navajo, Chukchis, Aleuts +95 more
← Official religion 8
Ilkhanate, Biafra, Togoland, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Netherlands New Guinea, Democratic Republic of Sudan, Republic of the North Solomons, Skewbald Horde
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Subtypes 3
Hawaiian religion, Sanamahism, animism in Malaysia
← Different from 2
Animeism, animalism
Different from 1
Animeism
Instance of 1
religion
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Topic's main category 1
Category:Animism
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Animists
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Animism
← Has characteristic 1
Tai folk religion
← Main subject 1
The Heart of the Bear
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Summary

animism is a religion[1]. animism is a type of traditional religion[2] and animism[3].

Related Entities

Cambodia Félix Houphouët-Boigny religion Zumbi

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 36uXaC
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → animism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: animism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289908893|animism (#289908893)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0327465-animismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0327465-animismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Described by source → The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +2
    Instance of → religion, religion type
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 6426, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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