Harvey opined that animism’s views on personhood represented a radical challenge to the dominant perspectives of modernity, because it accords "intelligence, rationality, consciousness, volition, agency, intentionality, language, and desire" to non-humans. Similarly, it challenges the view of human uniqueness that is prevalent in both Abrahamic religions and Western rationalism.
[[Miyazaki Hayao]]
Animism is the most important tenet of Miyazaki’s signature films, including [[Spirited Away]], [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind], [My Neighbour Totoro], [Princess Mononoke], and [[Ponyo]] (2008).
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