Religion and worldview

Religion and worldview in the Sensual Encyclopedia explores this field through sensuality, embodiment, human experience, and practical meaning.

Animism

## In brief Animism refers to religious, ontological, and relational worldviews in which personhood, agency, or spirit is not restricted to human beings. Trees, animals, rivers, mountains, ancestors, winds, or places.

Spirituality

## In brief Spirituality refers to ways people seek, experience, practice, and interpret connection with what they regard as sacred, ultimate, deeply meaningful, or larger than the isolated self. It may be religious.

Mysticism

## In brief Mysticism refers to practices, texts, experiences, disciplines, communities, and interpretations concerned with direct or transformative relation to ultimate reality, the divine, emptiness, unity, sacred.

Pilgrimage

## In brief Pilgrimage is a journey to a place, person, object, route, event, or landscape regarded as sacred, morally significant, ancestral, transformative, or existentially charged. It appears in many religious.

Sacred Space

## In brief Sacred space is a place set apart as religiously, spiritually, ritually, or existentially significant. It may be formally consecrated, inherited through tradition, marked by myth, associated with a deity or.

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