RELIGION / Indigenous

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Ìṣẹ̀ṣe is the indigenous religion and spiritual heritage of the Yoruba people in South-West Nigeria. While existing literature has examined the marginalization of indigenous faiths through a human rights lens, this paper argues that such a framework cannot fully address the systemic roots of this discrimination. This is because human rights discourse typically focuses on religious freedom, failing to account for Ìṣẹ…

Reference · Wikidata

indigenous religious belief systems

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Indigenous religion or native religion is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate the religious belief systems of communities described as being "indigenous". This category is often juxtaposed against others such as the "world religions" and "new religious movements". The term is commonly applied to a range of different belief systems across the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Book · DOAB

When describing the transition from Old Norse religion to Christianity in recent studies, the concept of "Christianization" is often applied. To a large extent this historiography focuses on the outcome of the encounter, namely the description of early Medieval Christianity and the new Christian society. The purpose of the present study is to concentrate more exclusively on the Old Norse religion during this period …

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