In November his fundamentalist Muslim government stopped a grain train and banned all emergency relief flights bound for the Christian and animist south.
By contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith, incorporating the Hindu, Buddhist and animist traditions .
If anything they look like African animist masks that convey the idea of an animal more than its literal shape.
Protestant missionaries come to Idaho's Nez Perce While the white man was racing into Idaho and surrounding territories 200 years ago in search of land, gold and wealth, missionaries were right on their heels to bring Christian salvation to animist Native Americans.
June 23, 2013 - Coeur d'Alene Press
Barack Obama in Examiner.com Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths,Obama recalled. "He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a...
Holland Taylor in Voice of America And when they succeeded in defeating that extremism, they allowed all Javanese freedom of religion,said Taylor. "They could be Hindu, they could be Buddhist, they could be animist, they could be Muslim, they could mix them all together....