List of ethnic religions
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The symbol of the Ndut initiation rite in Serer religion.
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
See also: African traditional religions and Afro-American religions
- Akan religion (Akans of the Gold Coast)
- Bantu religion (Bantu of Central/Southern Africa)
- Berber religion (Berbers of northern Africa)
- Igbo religion (Igbo of southeastern Nigeria)
- Mbuti religion (Mbuti of Congo and central Sudan)
- Egyptian religion (of ancient Egypt)
- 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
- Bon (Tibetans)
- Chinese folk religion or Shenism, Taoism (Han Chinese)
- Dongbaism (Nakhi of the north-western flanks of the Himalayas)
- Dravidian folk religion of southern India
- Druze
- Hinduism
- Iranian religions
- Jainism
- Judaism (Israelites and Judaeans of the Levant)
- Kaharingan (Dayaks of Indonesia)
- 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)
- Parmalim (Bataks of Indonesia)
- Punjabi folk religion in Punjab (region)
- Ryukyuan religion, Ijun (Ryukyuans of the Ryukyu Islands near Taiwan)
- Samaritanism
- Shabak in Iraq
- Shinto (Japanese)
- Sikhism
- Sunda Wiwitan (Sundanese people of Indonesia)
- Donyi-Polo (Arunachali of Northeastern India)
- Sanamahism (Meitei of Northeastern India)
- Santhal religion (Santhals of Eastern India and the Ganges delta)
- Tengrism (Turks, Mongolians, Hungarians)
- Yazdânism (Kurds of northern Iraq and eastern Anatolia)
- Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern Russia)
- Non-specific:
- Central Asian folk religions
- Siberian folk religions
- Turco-Mongol religion of Central Asia
Americas
See also: Native American religion
- Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern Russia)
- Inuit religion (Inuit of North America and Greenland)
- Anishinaabe traditional beliefs
- Ancient Mexica religion, Santa Muerte worship
- Maya religion (Maya; Guatemalans)
Europe
Cuman statue, 11th century, Ukraine
- Ancient Balkan religions (Dacians, Thracians, and the ancestors of modern Albanians, the Illyrians)
- Armenian religion of the southern Caucasus
- Baltic religions of Lithuania, Latvia and Western Russia
- Basque religions of the western end of the Pyrenees
- Celtic polytheism (Ancient Britons, Cumbrians, Gaels, Manx, Picts, Gallaeci of what is now Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and Galicia-Northern Portugal)
- Etruscan religion (Etruscans of the central Italian peninsula)
- Native Finnic religion (Ludes, Olonets, Veps, Izhorians, Votes, Livonians, Võros and Setos of eastern Scandinavia and the eastern Baltic)
- Mari native religion
- Germanic paganism (pre-Christian Teutons and Germanii)
- Ancient Greek religion (pre-Christian Greeks)
- Ancient Georgian religion (pre-Christian Colchis of the southern Caucasus)
- Norse religion (pre-Christian Norsefolk and Vikings of Scandinavia)
- Ancient Roman religion (pre-Christian Romans)
- Sami religion (Sami people of Scandinavia)
- Slavic paganism of Eastern and Southeastern Europe
- Vainakh (Nakhs of the Caucasus)
- Folk Catholicism
See also
- Ethnic religion
- Folk religion
- List of religions and spiritual traditions
- List of Neopagan movements
- Neopaganism
- Shamanism
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