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List of ethnic religions

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Ethnic religions (also "indigenous religions" or "ethnoreligions") are generally defined as religions which are related to a particular ethnic group (ethnoreligious group), and often seen as a defining part of that ethnicity's culture, language, and customs (social norms, conventions, traditions). In an ethnic religion, the ethnic group and its beliefs system cannot be easily separated. Oftentimes an ethnic religion's doctrine only pertains or is directed to that group. A common trait among ethnic religions is that they are closed to outsiders, limiting themselves to members born into the group. This is opposed to universal religions, which are open to all peoples and actively pursue and accept converts.

The symbol of the Ndut initiation rite in Serer religion
A typical Chinese local-deity temple in Taiwan

Africa edit

See also: Traditional African religions and African diaspora religions

Asia edit

Americas edit

See also: Native American religions

Europe edit

 
Cuman statue, 11th century, Ukraine

Oceania edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Chatty, Dawn (2010-03-15). Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81792-9.
  2. ^ Simon Harrison (2006). Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West. Berghahn Books. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-1-57181-680-1.
  3. ^ Salibi, Kamal S. (1988). A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered. I.B.Tauris. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-86064-912-7.
  4. ^ Minahan 2002, p. 1194 Minahan, James (2002). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32384-4.
  5. ^ For Assyrians as a Christian people, see Joel J. Elias, The Genetics of Modern Assyrians and their Relationship to Other People of the Middle East and Steven L. Danver, Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues, p. 517
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