Living Traditions in Varied Local Forms

Peoples whose traditional religion remains a living practice today, carried on in varied local forms rather than a single standardized version. This covers cultures where the religion has adapted differently from region to region or community to community while remaining continuously practised, without either the closed or initiatory restrictions that mark some other groups here or the interruption that marks a discontinued or reconstructed tradition. A people whose tradition is currently undergoing active revival after a period of decline, rather than simple unbroken continuity, is grouped instead under living traditions in active revival.