Sentence examples for native religion from inspiring English sources

Their Christianity, however, is generally overlaid upon the native religion.

Both it and Taoism, a native religion, sit uncomfortably with an atheistic party doctrine.

Some, like the bronze mirrors, are directly related to Shinto, the native religion.

Tibetan Buddhism also adopted many rituals of Bon, Tibet's native religion.

Buddhism adapted itself to Shintō, the native religion of Japan, and to its shrines, festivals, and rites.

Myths about the old gods and spirits are still told, but Catholicism has largely displaced the native religion.

Indian languages and native religions were suppressed.

Cambodia's ancestor-centered native religions were vital and popular.

Indeed, many of these native religions underwent a conscious archaism during this period, attempting to recover earlier forms and practices.

Each of these native religions also had diasporic centres that exhibited marked change during the Hellenistic period.

Assimilation was accomplished by undercutting the indigenous subsistence economy, removing Native American children to distant boarding schools, and suppressing native religions in favour of Christianity.