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Animal faith is the study of animal behaviours that suggest proto-religious faith. There is no evidence that any non-human animals believe in gods, pray, worship, create artifacts with ritual significance, or many other behaviours typical of human religion. Whether animals can have religious faith is dependent on a sufficiently open definition of religion. Thus, if by religion one means a “non- anthropocentric, non- anthropomorphic, non-theistic, and non- logocentric trans-species prototype definition of religion,” and ritual behaviour can be interpreted in the actions of chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins and other animals.
The study of proto-religions in modern animals is relevant to the study of the development of religion in modern humans and their recent ancestors.
Usage examples of "animal faith".
At that time, with the whole of his half-animal faith, Yura believed in God, who was the keeper of that forest.