Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [religions and religious concepts]
5. religions (belief systems, cultures)

Anotations

Scope note:

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.