Christus Redemptor An Outline Study of the Island World of the Pacific
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It is no religion, for it relates to temporal life only, and its professors do not concern themselves much with gods, priests, worship, or external life. One of our missionaries, Mr. A. C. Kruyt, has made a special study of Animism. NEW ZEALAND, NEW GUINEA, MALAYSIA 203 Intimately connected with Animism is Spirit- ism. After death a second soul conies to light and appears as a ghost. Spirits and ghosts try- to do harm to the living, or will benefit them. The spirits of the ancestors will someti...mes pro- tect their descendants against bad influences, sometimes try to attract their souls to their own dwelling-place and thus cause their death. To propitiate the spirits, presents are given, sacrifices made, and often the help of male or female priests is wanted. Occasionally the spirit takes posses- sion of a priest or other person, sometimes of a child, and speaks through that person. This is what is called "Shamanism. " When the spirit is thought to be incorporated in some object it is called " Fetichism.
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