Nordic Animism

Nordic Animism is the contemporary recovery of Euro-traditional animist knowledge of Northwestern Europe. It is the practice of engaging and respecting other-than-humans that inhabit our landscapes, our cycle of seasons and our culture through history. “From a scholarly perspective, Animism is a broader perspective than, for instance, the study pre-Christian heathenry, because animism has been reinvented through changing attitudes, practices and changing religious idioms. The animist perspective shifts the focus. Instead of researching one historic context (typically from around the Viking Age), contemporary animists study a mode of religiosity, i.e. a religiosity that focuses on locally appropriate ways of respectfully relating to the wider community of beings. This relationship of respect has implications for our general approach to, for example, managing the environment. This is sometimes called Euro TEK (European Traditional Ecological Knowledge).