Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [religions and religious concepts]
5. religious concepts
6. religious ideologies

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the belief in spiritual beings capable of influencing human events, based on the idea that animals, plants and even inanimate objects have souls like humans. The 19th-century anthropologist Edward Tylor thought it to be the earliest form of religion, a view not accepted by modern anthropologists.