TRADITIONAL RELIGION

TRADITIONAL RELIGION
   those religions, usually of relatively small and isolated SOCIAL GROUPS, which rely upon ORAL TRADITIONS and follow a pattern established over generations without major or conscious input from the great world religions of the ABRAMIC and YOGIC TRADITIONS. The term applies to most African religions as well as North American Native religions and the religions of Polynesia.

Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.

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