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African traditional religion — African traditional religions, also referred to as African indigenous religions or African tribal religions, is a term referring to a variety of religions indigenous to the continent of Africa. Like tribal religions from other parts of the world … Wikipedia
Religion in Africa — is multifaceted. Most Africans adhere to either Christianity or Islam. Islam and Christianity contest which is larger, but many people that are adherents of both religions also practice African traditional religions, with traditions of folk… … Wikipedia
Religion in Afrika — ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil des kulturellen Lebens auf dem Kontinent. Religion in Afrika umfasst beinahe alle Bereiche des Lebens und spielt für die Menschen eine zentrale Rolle. Dem Christentum und dem Islam gehört die überwiegende Mehrheit … Deutsch Wikipedia
Traditional African religion — Main article: Religion in Africa An early 20th century Igbo medicine man in Nigeria, West Africa. The traditional religions indigenous to Africa have, for most of their existence, been orally rather than scripturally transmitted.[1] … Wikipedia
Religion in China — Three laughs at Tiger Brook , Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are one, a litang style painting portraying three men laughing by a river stream, 12th century, Song Dynasty … Wikipedia
Religion in Ghana — The religious composition of Ghana in the first postindependence population census of 1960 was 41 percent Christian, 38 percent traditionalist, 12 percent Muslim, and the rest (about 9 percent) no religious affiliation. A breakdown of the 1960… … Wikipedia
Religion in Russia — Orthodox Christianity (Russian: Православие Pravoslavije ), is Russia’s traditional religion, deemed part of Russia s historical heritage in a law passed in 1997. [cite web|last=Bell|first=Imogen|title=Eastern Europe, Russia and Central… … Wikipedia
Religion — This article is about a general set of beliefs about life, purpose, etc.. For other uses, see Religion (disambiguation). Religious redirects here. For a member of a Catholic religious order, see Religious (Catholicism) … Wikipedia
Religion in Nigeria — Several religions in Nigeria coexist, helping to accentuate regional and ethnic distinctions. All religions represented in Nigeria were practiced in every major city in 1990. But Islam dominated in the north and held strong numbers in the South… … Wikipedia
religion, recent history of — The recent history of Chinese religion can be said to begin at the end of the nineteenth century with the emergence of a concerted ideological critique of religion. This critique gradually intensified over the next several decades, and was… … Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
