Faster access than browser!
57 relations: African diaspora in the Americas, Afro-American religion, Andrew Walls, Animism, Assyrian Church of the East, Assyrian people, Australia, Canada, Caribbean, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Diaspora, Diedrich Hermann Westermann, East Africa, Edinburgh University Press, Endogamy, Ethnic group, Fiji, Folk religion, France, Gavari, Han Chinese, Hinduism, Indian people, International African Institute, Islam, Japanese people, Jews, JSTOR, Judaism, List of ethnic religions, List of Neopagan movements, Malay Peninsula, Mauritania, Mauritius, Modern Paganism, National god, Netherlands, New Zealand, Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin, Project MUSE, Religion, Religious studies, Senegal, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serer people, Serer religion, Shamanism, Shinto, Slava, ..., Southern Africa, The Gambia, Totem, Traditional African religions, United Kingdom, United States, Veneration of the dead. Expand index (7 more) »
African diaspora in the Americas
The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry.
New!!: Ethnic religion and African diaspora in the Americas · See more »
Afro-American religion
Afro-diasporic religion (also known as African diasporic religions) are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas in various nations of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southern United States.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Afro-American religion · See more »
Andrew Walls
Andrew Finlay Walls (born 1928) is a British historian of missions, best known for his pioneering studies of the history of the African church and a pioneer in the academic field of world Christianity.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Andrew Walls · See more »
Animism
Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Animism · See more »
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East (ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ܕܐܬܘܖ̈ܝܐ ʻĒdtā d-Madenḥā d-Ātorāyē), officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (ʻEdtā Qaddīštā wa-Šlīḥāitā Qātolīqī d-Madenḥā d-Ātorāyē), is an Eastern Christian Church that follows the traditional christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Assyrian Church of the East · See more »
Assyrian people
Assyrian people (ܐܫܘܪܝܐ), or Syriacs (see terms for Syriac Christians), are an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Assyrian people · See more »
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Australia · See more »
Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Canada · See more »
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Caribbean · See more »
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han people, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Chinese folk religion · See more »
Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Christianity · See more »
Diaspora
A diaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Diaspora · See more »
Diedrich Hermann Westermann
Diedrich Hermann Westermann (June 24, 1875–May 31, 1956) was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Diedrich Hermann Westermann · See more »
East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.
New!!: Ethnic religion and East Africa · See more »
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Edinburgh University Press · See more »
Endogamy
Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Endogamy · See more »
Ethnic group
An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Ethnic group · See more »
Fiji
Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Fiji · See more »
Folk religion
In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, popular religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Folk religion · See more »
France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
New!!: Ethnic religion and France · See more »
Gavari
Gavari (Devanagari: गवरी) is a 40-day ecstatic dance drama tradition dedicated to the Shakti avatar Gavari (aka Gavri or Gauri), the principal deity of Mewar's Bhil tribe in Rajasthan, India.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Gavari · See more »
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese,.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Han Chinese · See more »
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Hinduism · See more »
Indian people
No description.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Indian people · See more »
International African Institute
The International African Institute (IAI) was founded (as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures - IIALC) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages.
New!!: Ethnic religion and International African Institute · See more »
Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
New!!: Ethnic religion and Islam · See more »
Japanese people
are a nation and an ethnic group that is native to Japan and makes up 98.5% of the total population of that country.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Japanese people · See more »
Jews
Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Jews · See more »
JSTOR
JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library founded in 1995.
New!!: Ethnic religion and JSTOR · See more »
Judaism
Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Judaism · See more »
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.
New!!: Ethnic religion and List of ethnic religions · See more »
List of Neopagan movements
Neopaganism (also modern paganism or contemporary paganism) encompasses a wide range of religious groups and individuals.
New!!: Ethnic religion and List of Neopagan movements · See more »
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula (Tanah Melayu, تانه ملايو; คาบสมุทรมลายู,, မလေး ကျွန်းဆွယ်, 马来半岛 / 馬來半島) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Malay Peninsula · See more »
Mauritania
Mauritania (موريتانيا; Gànnaar; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; Mauritanie), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwestern Africa.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Mauritania · See more »
Mauritius
Mauritius (or; Maurice), officially the Republic of Mauritius (République de Maurice), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Mauritius · See more »
Modern Paganism
Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Modern Paganism · See more »
National god
National gods are a class of guardian divinities or deities whose special concern is the safety and well-being of an ethnic group (nation), and of that group's leaders.
New!!: Ethnic religion and National god · See more »
Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Netherlands · See more »
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
New!!: Ethnic religion and New Zealand · See more »
Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin
No description.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin · See more »
Project MUSE
Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Project MUSE · See more »
Religion
Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Religion · See more »
Religious studies
Religious studies, alternately known as the study of religion, is an academic field devoted to research into religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Religious studies · See more »
Senegal
Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Senegal · See more »
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church (Српска православна црква / Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Serbian Orthodox Church · See more »
Serer people
The Serer people are a West African ethnoreligious group.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Serer people · See more »
Serer religion
The Serer religion, or a ƭat Roog ("the way of the Divine"), is the original religious beliefs, practices, and teachings of the Serer people of Senegal in West Africa.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Serer religion · See more »
Shamanism
Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Shamanism · See more »
Shinto
or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Shinto · See more »
Slava
The Slava ("celebration"; слава) is a Serbian Orthodox Christian tradition of the ritual glorification of one's family's patron saint.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Slava · See more »
Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Southern Africa · See more »
The Gambia
No description.
New!!: Ethnic religion and The Gambia · See more »
Totem
A totem (Ojibwe doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Totem · See more »
Traditional African religions
The traditional African religions (or traditional beliefs and practices of African people) are a set of highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Traditional African religions · See more »
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
New!!: Ethnic religion and United Kingdom · See more »
United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
New!!: Ethnic religion and United States · See more »
Veneration of the dead
The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased.
New!!: Ethnic religion and Veneration of the dead · See more »
Redirects here:
Ethnic religions, Ethnoreligion, Ethnoreligionist, Ethnoreligionists, Indigenous religion, Indigenous religions, Native religion, Religion and ethnicity, Traditional religion, Traditional religions, Tribal religion, Tribal religions.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_religion
