History
The founders of animism were E.B. Tylor , Charles Robert Darwin , and Herbert Spencer. The word animism means "soul" or "breath". Tylor belief was that that religion was made by man ideas about the plurality of the spirits and or ghosts. While Charles and Herbert thought that is was that you started out low in the chain of life and move you move up each time like evolutionism. Each of those theories help them believe that there was earlier stages of hypothetical beginnings that were track back to a scholar name R.R. Marett. Marett wrote The Threshold of Religion in 1909. His term for animism was more like the word dynamism and it had nothing to with soul-like manner. The date the religion all the way back to as early as 1887. They think Eduard von Hartmann and R.H. Lotze were far of rejecting of Tylor theory of animism. People now a day want to get raided of animism as a religion but there is three things stopping it form happing. Those three things are 1.) That scholars still believe Tylor theory on it. 2.) That it can be named a twentieth-century name for the type of theory it is. And last but not lest the third and finally reason 3.) Is that With its illustrates of a clear fashion of the nineteenth-century with its origins that fall squarely in the interest of history for the final analysis to be obsession with the origins for the ultimate human orientations. The reflected Tylor had on the diverse mass of ethnological data that had reached his desk that also help keep animism a religion. Because Tylor tired to imagine the minds of earlier men and presented what he found in vivid colors. Animism was spread all over Europe and Africa. And that is the history of animism.
Artifact #1
The spell of the Sensuous by David Abram was one of most compelling art that was put forward for animism. David wrote that they were human and were contact with what was not human at all. He gets in an argument about that they should turn back to an animistic vision. He thought it would have been a remedy to get them back together with the western civilization. He believed that not only animals and plant were sentient but also the rivers.
Artifact #2
Not only people were harmful. It was a good idea to enter personal relationships with them so they are not dangerous any more. With the relationships like that the were able to get information. And the receipt were gifts like power , vision , and healing. And the did not read other-than-human that was implying that humans were some standard to the personhood.
Artifact #3
When recognizing the personhood was not indiscriminate. Ojibwe said don't perceived stones. Stones had represent as humans to the manifest of animate qualities. The Saami only a few stones called sieidi had hunger, emotions, and families. They had become recognized to have been that person because they could sing, move, laugh, and shout.