Animism vs. Pantheism: What's the Difference?

The belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects and phenomena.

A doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena.

The belief in the existence of spiritual beings that are separable or separate from bodies.

Belief in and worship of all gods.

The hypothesis holding that an immaterial force animates the universe.

(religion) The belief that the Universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God.

A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.

The belief in all gods; omnitheism.

A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.

The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and natural laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism. The doctrine denies that God is a rational personality.

(dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

(rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

The doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.

The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls;