ANIMISM ANIMISM FAITH

 Latin = animus/anima - mind/soul Supreme being God

 Beliefs Higher deities Virgin Mary, Saints
1. Everything is conscious Medium, shamans Priests
2. Everything has a soul Rituals to relate with deities, Sacraments, novena,
3. Natural wold = community of living persona; ancestors devotions
only some of whom are humans Myths, narratives Service of the word
 Types of culture in which these animists live Food offerings usually with Offering of the bread and
drinks accompanied by wine with consecration,
COMMON FEATURES OF ANIMISM invocations, songs, dances invocations, prayers, songs
1. Existence of souls/spirits Officiating: Shamans Officiating: Priests
- existence of metaphysical entities (found in human Object of worship: deity, anito Object of worship: the Holy
beings, animals, plants, nonliving objects/phenomena) or diwata Trinity
2. Souls/spirits in the natural realm
- respect & worship plants, animals, regarding the as Other notes:
relatives Wedding - sukat damit, candle (no electric fan)
3. The spirit world Business - Sto. Niño, gold cat (Chinese)
4. Shamanism
- refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices that FILIPINO SPIRITUALITY
are united around a common method  Seeing the spirits in this world
- use and control of spirits (healing, control the weather,  Giving importance of the senses
curse enemies, divine the future, interpret dreams, project  Festive
themselves astrally)  Environment as charged with presence and power of God
- albularyo, mangkukulam, etc.  Reverence for images
5. Survival of the dead
- spirits pass into a more leisurely world; remains on earth as a IGLESIA NI CRISTO (THE CHURCH OF CHRIST)
ghost  The Church = July 27, 1914 [Punta, Sta. Ana, Manila]
 Religious dynasty of the Manalo family
CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES OF ANIMISM IN  Felix y Sagun-Manalo (1886-1963)
HUMAN CULTURE  Taguig
1. Tribal animism  Joined several Protestant groups
- plurality of souls, spirits, or consciousness  Proclaimed himself as the “angel from the east”
2. Modern neopaganism (Is 43:5) & God’s last messenger on earth
- relationship between human beings and environment  Taught that everying concerning faith and
3. The new animism religion is to be found in the Bible
- humans are not only closely related to other human  Eraño Manalo
beings, but also to animals, plants, and inanimate objects  Eduardo Manalo
4. Significance of animism
- many beliefs of religions today arose from animism IGLESIA FILIPINA INDEPENDIENTE (PHILIPPINE
(angels, souls, etc.) INDEPENDENT CHURCH)
- importance of ecology becomes more political and  Founded 1902
spiritual issue  Affiliated with old Catholics and Anglican
- have formed the bedrock of religion  3 million (especially in Ilocos)
 Gregorio Aglipay
ANIMISTIC SPIRITUALITY  Ilocos Norte
 Spirits of our ancestors and other spirits living in this  Activist Catholic priest, 1st Obispo Maximo
world  Protested against the abuses of Spanish gov’t
 There is a Supreme Being but we cannot relate with  Isabelo Delos Reyes / Don Belong
 Personal and family relations are important  Co-founder
 Interacting with the dead as if they did with the living;  Advocate nationalism, anti-imperialism, democracy,
ancestral reverence; rituals with environment spirits; opposing extra-judicial killings
medium
 Social life based on kinship; authority and leadership ANG DATING DAAN (THE OLD PATH)
vested in family heads  Eliseo Soriano (April 4, 1947)
 Pasay City
FOLK SPIRITUALITY  Baptism at the Church of God in Christ Jesus = April
 Animism expressed their uniqueness and identity and 7, 1964
harmonize with colonizing culture  Bible Exposition program on air