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Animism vs Catholicism - What's the difference?

animism | catholicism |

As nouns the difference between animism and catholicism

is that animism is a belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena while catholicism is the state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.

animism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
  • A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
  • (dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

    • See also

    * ("animism" on Wikipedia)

    catholicism

    English

    (wikipedia Catholicism)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The faiths, practices and doctrines of a Catholic Church, but especially of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • * 2011 , Connie Green, Religious Diversity and Children's Literature, p 156
    • Catholicism is the second largest religious body after Sunni Muslims

    Hypernyms

    * Christianity, trinitarianism

    Coordinate terms

    * Mormonism, Protestantism, Quakerism