List of ethnic religions
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[]
- 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:
Oceania[]
- Indigenous Australian
- Māori religion (Māori people)
- Modekngei (Palauan people)
See also[]
- Folk religion
- List of Neopagan movements
- Neopaganism
- List of religions and spiritual traditions
- Shamanism
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
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