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Word: animist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with his kite to his mild surprise. Stilts are used instead of cars and sometimes Jon's father lets him "drive it to the garage." The characters all have the faces of animals, but not in any sort of realistic way. If anything they look like African animist masks that convey the idea of an animal more than its literal shape. Jon seems to be a cross between a dog and monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Life Missed | 10/16/2001 | See Source »

...things like the number and nature of deity, why is there terrible wrongdoing in the world, should men and women have prescribed roles? When I finish, I get a list telling me that my answers suggest I'm best suited to be a Universal Unitarian, a Neo-Paganist (an animist, essentially) or a Liberal Quaker. (It also seems I'm more in tune with Sikhs than Seventh Day Adventists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Once Was Lost, but Now I'm Wired | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...decade, but I think the reason it's suddenly looming large on Washington's radar is because of an unlikely alliance between black activists and right-wing Christians taking up the issues. (The Muslim government in the north is committing atrocities against civilians in the predominantly Christian and animist south, including kidnapping people and selling them as slaves.) You have regular protests outside Sudan's embassy in Washington, and some of those arrested there are being defended by a legal double team of Johnnie Cochran and Ken Starr. And one of the Christian groups working down there is Samaritan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Powell's Africa Trip Helps Bush Mend Fences with U.S. Blacks' | 5/23/2001 | See Source »

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