They are far from the only Ivorian folk remedies that use body parts, according to lawyer Didier Zeze. "The mystic has a ...

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

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

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 ...

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

This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Contradiction riddles the phrases “indigenous novels” and “animist realism”. Often, routinely and casually, ...

Pilipinos have always revered the natural world since the pre-colonial practice of animism (worship of the natural world). In fact, they used animist practices as a foundation for Catholicism. Asia ...

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 ...

Lately, I’ve been talking a lot to inanimate objects such as sticks, fridge doors, car keys and shoes — that sort of thing.

Throughout, the sense of rapture is breathtaking. It’s as if Van Gogh were an animist burning to communicate the spiritual ...

Over mountains, by air, and by sea, pilgrims flocked to Papua New Guinea's capital ahead of Pope Francis's arrival Friday on ...