spirits

Examples of spirits in the following topics:

• Animism

  • Animism is the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, either intrinsically or because spirits inhabit them.
  • In Shinto, spirits of nature, or kami, are believed to exist everywhere.
  • Unlike supernatural forces, animist spirits may be inherently good or evil.
  • In pantheism, everything shares the same spiritual essence—there are no distinct spirits and/or souls.
  • In animist societies, ritual is considered essential to win the favor of the spirits that ward off other malevolent spirits and provide food, shelter, and fertility.

• Economic Sociology

  • Max Weber's book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is the archetypical representation of the works of economic sociology's classical period .
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is representative of classical economic sociology in that it uses sociological data on religion to explain the economic phenomenon of northern Europe's embrace of capitalism.
  • This picture shows the cover to the 1934 edition of Max Weber's The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

• Alternatives to Traditional Health Care

  • Mind-body medicine takes a holistic approach to health that explores the interconnection between the mind, body, and spirit.
  • Mind-body medicine takes a holistic approach to health that explores the interconnection between the mind, body, and spirit.

• Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

  • In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, his most famous text, Weber proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy, and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world.
  • Instead of being viewed as morally suspect, greedy, or ambitious, financially successful believers were viewed as being motivated by a highly moral and respectable philosophy, the "spirit of capitalism. " Eventually, the rational roots of this doctrine outgrew their religious origins and became autonomous cultural traits of capitalist society.

• Magic and Supernaturalism

  • In pre-monotheistic religious traditions, there is no fundamental distinction between religious practice and magic; tutelary deities concerned with magic are sometimes called "hermetic deities" or "spirit guides. "

• Role Theory

  • This image shows that elderly people can be active, social, and in good spirits.

• Theism and Monotheism

  • He indicates that by including ever watchful gods and spirits, humans discovered an effective strategy for restraining selfishness and building more cooperative groups.

• The Nature of Religion

  • The sociologist Emile Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a "unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. " By sacred things he meant things "set apart and forbidden — beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. " Sacred things are not, however, limited to gods or spirits.

• Definitions of Religion

  • This view of religion draws a sometimes ambiguous line between beliefs and rituals relating to empirical, definable phenomena and those relating to undefinable or unobservable phenomena, such as spirits, god(s), and angels.

• Religious Experience

  • In ecstasy, believers are understood to have a soul or spirit which can leave the body.