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Indigenous Religions

Indigenous Religions is a classificatory category in the academic study of religion that designates the localized, community-specific religious traditions of Indigenous peoples that are historically rooted in particular lands and kinship-based lifeways and are typically orally transmitted, non-proselytizing, and integrally embedded in social and cultural practices, in contrast to translocal “world religions” and recent “new religious movements.”

975

Publications

43.1K

Citations

1.2K

Authors

429

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

92

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Indigenous ReligionIndigenous Religious Traditions

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Publications

975

Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People.

Marilyn Strathern, Roy A. Rappàport · Man · 1968 · 1.3K citations

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God Is Red: A Native View of Religion

George E. Tinker, Vine Deloria · The American Indian Quarterly · 1994 · 935 citations

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Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa

Elizabeth Elbourne, David Chidester · Journal of Religion in Africa · 1999 · 755 citations

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Christianity in Africa: From African Independent to Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches

Birgit Meyer · Annual Review of Anthropology · 2004 · 499 citations

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Becoming sinners: Christianity and moral torment in a Papua, New Guinea society

Choice Reviews Online · 2005 · 451 citations

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Authors

1.2K

  1. SD
    Sam D. Gill

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    8 publications · 250 citations

    8

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  2. ÅH
    Åke Hultkrantz

    Stockholm University, Sweden

    7 publications · 258 citations

    7

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  3. MT
    Matt Tomlinson

    Monash University, Australia

    6 publications · 227 citations

    6

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  4. CV
    Christopher Vecsey

    Colgate University, United States

    5 publications · 127 citations

    5

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  5. JR
    James R. Walker

    University of Hawaii System, United States

    4 publications · 162 citations

    4

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Institutions

429

  1. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    827 citations

  2. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    306 citations

  3. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    497 citations

  4. Brunel University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    96 citations

  5. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    246 citations

  6. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    135 citations

  7. UiT The Arctic University of Norway

    Tromsø, Norway

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    169 citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    164 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 101 publications · 6.7K citations

    45

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  2. The American Indian Quarterly

    AIQ · 36 publications · 2.3K citations

    23

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  3. Man

    23 publications · 3K citations

    20

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  4. Ethnohistory

    25 publications · 773 citations

    17

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  5. Journal of Religion in Africa

    16 publications · 1.2K citations

    16

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