He didn't know that Shinto was an animistic religion with many similarities to those of Native Americans.

In animistic religion, animals, plants, and other entities may be persons or deities.

Most of these peoples practiced spiritual, animistic religions.

Superstitious beliefs, Gaylin said, "are not much different from primitive animistic religions."

In the ancient animistic religions, kami were understood as simply the divine forces of nature.

Although the majority of Kachin people are Christian, the manau has its roots in animistic religion.

The second notion of the shaman is as a priest of an animistic religion.

Their animistic religion is very close to the Kirant religion.

Since then the nomads preferred to change their animistic religion and adopt to Buddhism.

The largely animistic and polytheistic religions there offered little or no effective resistance to the higher faith.