indigenous religions

  • 1.  The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010. p. 15.  
  • 2.  indigenous religions. The Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus. “General term for the belief systems of thousands of small-scale societies who have distinct languages, kinship systems, mythologies, ancestral memories, and homelands, but whose religious and spiritual beliefs fall outside the realm of world religions such as Buddhism or Christianity. Central to indigenous religious traditions is an awareness of the integral and whole relationship of symbolic and material life, often incorporating ritual practices and cosmological ideas.”