ANIMATED ENVIRONMENT
Animism and the Environment Revisited
Keywords:
Animism, EnvironmentAbstract
Some of my earliest memories of religious behaviour involve my grandmother whom I seemed to have followed around in loving docility for much of my early formative years ... and a large spherical stone, which we would both meticulously and unfailingly wash and apply red ash and turmeric paste to every Friday. \ This 'stone,' was placed next to other sculpted images of the more popular and recognizable Hindu Goddesses in full anthropomorphic form, all of whom were housed in a small shrine temple space in our garden.
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