Example Sentences
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He’s among the community leaders trying to divulge knowledge of these animist traditions so they won’t be lost for his children’s generation.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
The figure-grazing outfit, in some ways, embodies the syncretic form of Islam that developed in Indonesia, in which an Arabian faith brought by traders blended with animist, Hindu, Buddhist and other influences.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
The mainly African and Christian or animist South Sudan gained independence from Arab and Muslim-majority Sudan in 2011, ending decades of civil war.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
The mostly Christian and animist south voted in a referendum six years later to secede from the mostly Muslim north.
From Reuters ● Feb. 4, 2023
In the animist world, objects and living things are not the only animated beings.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
