Animism vs. Pantheism

Animismnoun

A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.

Animismnoun

A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.

Animismnoun

(dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

Animismnoun

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

Animismnoun

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.

Animismnoun

the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls;

Animism

Animism (from Latin: anima, 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and alive.

Pantheismnoun

(religion) The belief that the Universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God.

Pantheismnoun

The belief in all gods; omnitheism.

Pantheismnoun

The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and natural laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism. The doctrine denies that God is a rational personality.

Pantheismnoun

(rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods

Pantheismnoun

the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God

Pantheismnoun

a doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.

Pantheismnoun

the worship or tolerance of many gods.

Pantheism

Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-things compose an all-encompassing, immanent god. Pantheist belief does not recognize a distinct personal god, anthropomorphic or otherwise, but instead characterizes a broad range of doctrines differing in forms of relationships between reality and divinity.