List of ethnic religions

The symbol of the Ndut initiation rite in Serer religion.

Indian devotees of Shiva in pilgrimage.

A typical Chinese local-deity temple in Taiwan.

Ethnic religions (also "indigenous religions") are generally defined as religions which are related to a particular ethnic group, and often seen as a defining part of that ethnicity's culture, language, and customs.

Africa[]

Ancient Egyptian religion
Akan religion (Akans of the Gold Coast)
Bantu religion (Bantu of Central/Southern Africa)
Berber religion (Berbers of northern Africa)
Coptic Christianity (Copts of Egypt)
Mbuti religion (Mbuti of Congo and central Sudan)
Odinani (Igbo of southeastern Nigeria)
Serer religion (Serer of Senegal and northern West Africa)
Vodun (Fon and Ewe of Benin and southwestern Nigeria)
Yoruba religion (Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin)

Asia[]

Ahom religion (Ahom people of the north-east India)
Armenian mythology
Bon (Tibetans)
Chinese folk religion, Taoism (Han Chinese)
Dongbaism (Nakhi of the north-western flanks of the Himalayas)
Donyi-Polo (Arunachali of Northeastern India)
Dravidian folk religion of southern India
Druze^[1]^[2]
Indigenous Philippine folk religions
Judaism
Kaharingan (Dayaks of Indonesia)
Kalash religion (Kalash people of Pakistan)
Kejawen (Javanese people of Indonesia)
Kirant Mundhum (Kirat of the south-western flanks of the Himalayas)
Korean shamanism or Sinism (Koreans)
Mandaeism (Mandaeans of southern Mesopotamia)
Maronite Christianity (Maronites of Lebanon)^[3]^[4]
Parmalim (Bataks of Indonesia)
Punjabi folk religion in Punjab (region)
Qiang folk religion (Qiang people)
Ryukyuan religion, Ijun (Ryukyuans of the Ryukyu Islands near Taiwan)
Samaritanism (Samaritans)
Sanamahism (Meitei of Northeastern India)
Santhal religion (Santhals of Eastern India and the Ganges delta)
Sarnaism (Adivasi of India)
Shabakism (Shabaks in Iraq)
Shinto (Japanese)
Sikhism
Sunda Wiwitan (Sundanese people of Indonesia)
Syriac Christianity (Assyrian people in Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran.^[5] Saint Thomas Christians in India)

Tengrism (Turks, Mongolians, Hungarians)
Uatsdin (Ossetians)
Yahwism (Ancient Israelites)
Yazdânism (Kurds of northern Iraq and eastern Anatolia)
Yazidism
Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern Russia)
Vietnamese folk religion (Vietnamese)
Non-specific:
- Central Asian folk religions
- Iranian religions
- Tai folk religion in Laos Thailand and some part of Myanmar.
- Siberian folk religions
- Turco-Mongol religion of Central Asia

Americas[]

Anishinaabe traditional beliefs (Anishinaabe)
Inuit religion (Inuit of North America and Greenland)
Maya religion (Maya; Guatemalans)
Ancient Mexica religion, Santa Muerte worship (Mestizo/Mexicans and Mexican-Americans)
San La Muerte worship in Paraguay and north of Argentina
Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern Russia)
Rastafari(Jamaican people)

Europe[]

Cuman statue, 11th century, Ukraine

Adyghe Habze of Circassia in the Northwestern Caucasus
Anglicanism (English people)
Ancient Balkan religions (Dacians, Thracians, and Illyrians)
Baltic religions of Lithuania, Latvia and Western Russia
Basque religion (Basques of the western end of the Pyrenees)
Ancient Celtic religion (Ancient Britons, Cumbrians, Gaels, Manx, Picts, Gallaeci of what is now Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and Galicia)
Etruscan religion (Etruscans of the central Italian peninsula)
Finnic religion (Ludes, Olonets, Veps, Izhorians, Votes, Livonians, Võros and Setos of eastern Scandinavia and the eastern Baltic)
Ancient Georgian religion (pre-Christian Colchis of the southern Caucasus)
Germanic paganism (pre-Christian Germanic peoples)
Ancient Greek religion (pre-Christian Greeks)
Mari native religion (Mari people)
Norse religion (pre-Christian Norsemen and Vikings of Scandinavia)
Ancient Roman religion (pre-Christian Romans)
Sami religion (Sami people of Fennoscandia)
Slavic paganism (Slavs of Eastern and Southeastern Europe)
Vainakh (Nakhs of the Caucasus)

Non-specific:
- Folk Catholicism

Oceania[]

Indigenous Australian
Māori religion (Māori people)
Modekngei (Palauan people)

References[]

^ Chatty, Dawn (2010-03-15). Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81792-9.
^ Simon Harrison (2006). Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West. Berghahn Books. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-1-57181-680-1.
^ 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.
^ Minahan 2002, p. 1194 Minahan, James (2002). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32384-4.
^
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
- Steven L. Danver, Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues, p. 517

[dawn-1] Chatty, Dawn (2010-03-15). Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81792-9.

[Harrison-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
Steven L. Danver, Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues, p. 517

[6] Steven L. Danver, Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues, p. 517

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