泛灵论（英语：animism）又名万物有灵论，为发源及盛行于17世纪的哲学思想，后来则引用为宗教信仰种类之一。泛灵论认为天下万物皆有灵魂或自然精神，并在控制间影响其他自然现象。倡导此理论者，认为该自然现象与精神也深深影响人类社会行为。简言之，泛灵论支持者认为一棵树跟人类一样，具有同样的思想。后来也被广泛扩充解释为泛神论。

意指处于原始氏族社会中的人类，基于对梦境的恐惧，或基于对变化律则（The Law Of Metamorphosis）于是逐渐发展出超越界意识，从而认为一切自然万物之背后，皆存在一种具有神奇力量的精灵，一如人类的灵魂可以自由来去一般。

Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the worldview that non-human entities—such as animals, plants, and inanimate objects—possess a spiritual essence.

Animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of some indigenous tribal peoples, especially prior to the development of organized religion. Although each culture has its own different mythologies and rituals, "animism" is said to describe the most common, foundational thread of indigenous peoples' "spiritual" or "supernatural" perspectives. The Animistic perspective is so fundamental, mundane, everyday, and taken-for-granted that most animistic indigenous people do not even have a word in their languages that corresponds to "animism" (or even "religion"); the term is an anthropological construct.