Nature and religion

thumb|A totem pole in [[Ottawa, Ontario, Canada]]

variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the worship of the nature spirits

Sanamahism , also known as Meiteism , or Lainingthouism is an ethnic religion of the Meitei people of Manipur, in Northeast India. It is a polytheistic religion and is named after Lainingthou Sanamahi, one of the most important deities of the Meitei faith. Sanamahi is the eldest son of the supreme god Sidaba Mapu and the supreme goddess Leimarel Sidabi. Traditionally every Meitei household, irrespective of the religion, worships Sanamahi and Leimarel Sidabi. Sanamahism does not have a religious head but has a body, the Maru Loishang, that oversees the main religious activities and governs all

concept in religious anthropology

religious movement that believes nature and the natural world is an embodiment of divinity, sacredness or spiritual power

broadly inclusive term

religion venerating the Earth and nature