List of ethnic religions

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. Many modern ethnic religions accept converts, but do not seek converts, as opposed to universal religions, which are open to all peoples and actively pursue and accept converts.

Africa

North Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

See also: Traditional African religions and African diaspora religions

Asia

Austroasiatic

Austronesian

Indo-European

Anatolian

Indo-Aryan

Iranian religions

Semitic

Sino-Tibetan

Tibeto-Burman

Other

Historical religions

Americas

See also: Native American religions

Europe

Oceania

See also

References

  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.
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