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animism
A term first used by E. N. Tylor to designate a general belief in spiritual beings, which belief he held to be the origin of all religions. A common corruption of Tylor's sense is to refer to a belief that all natural objects possess spirits as animism. Jean Piaget has proposed that the growing child characteristically passes through an animistic phase.
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