"The mystic has a central place in daily life" in the Ivory Coast -- where Islam, Christianity and traditional animist ...

Exhibition at London's National Gallery features a 'stunning array' of paintings from the last two years of the artist's life ...

In fact, they used animist practices as a foundation for Catholicism. Asia Society’s Jack Miller notes, “(It's) Filipino folk Christianity, combining a surface veneer of Christian monotheism and dogma ...

AN Indonesian tribe digs up their dead family and pose with their corpses for photos in a bizarre ritual. The Torajan on the ...

Swans — considered a symbol of nobility, kindness, richness and happiness in Thailand — are another popular Sak Yant, along ...

Animism (from anima, soul, or spirit in Latin) is the belief that almost every place, every animal, every plant and every natural phenomenon has awareness and feelings, and can communicate directly ...

It has been revealed that genitalia from girls mutilated in Ivory Coast was being sold for the purposes of being used in ...

Historically, the country’s form of Islam has been moderate and syncretic, often sitting comfortably alongside animist and ...

When Pope Francis touches down in the East Timorese capital of Dili this week he will be landing in a totally different ...

Almost half the population of East Timor, the most Catholic nation outside Vatican City, attended a Mass presided over by ...

They survived centuries of Russian rule before that. Through it all, they’ve managed to sustain their language, their animist worldview, and their nomadic traditions. “The Nenets are one of ...

The journey from Sri Lanka's central highlands to its southeast coast takes you through some of the island nation's most ...