Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West.
In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing Author(s): Emma Restall Orr Number of pages: 314 Publication date: 2012 Dimensions: 145 x 214 x 22 Cover type: Paperback / softback.
Publisher | John |
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Author(s) | Emma |
Number of pages | 314 |
Publication date | 2012 |
Dimensions | 145 x 214 x 22 |
Cover type | Paperback softback |