Home›Peoples›All PeoplesBrowse ByAll PeoplesEthnic and cultural communities the atlas connects to specific religious traditions, deities and practices, grouped here by shared identity as the people themselves or outside scholarship describes it, distinct from a purely linguistic or colonial classification.FactsAll PeoplesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonPrimary Academic DisciplineWell-attestedComparative Religion 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedCultures 1All PeoplesFilter Results101 entriesPrincipal TraditionAllSunni Islam, predominantly the Hanafi school (1)Originates In LanguageAllAinu (1)Akan (1)Akkadian (2)Ancient Greek (1)Biblical Hebrew (1)Classic Maya (1)Classical Chinese (1)Classical Mongolian (1)Classical Nahuatl (2)Classical Tibetan (1)Fon (1)Hittite Language (1)K'iche' Maya (2)Ladino (1)Latin (1)Middle Egyptian (1)Middle Persian (1)Middle Welsh (1)Ojibwe (1)Old Church Slavonic (1)Old Irish (1)Old Norse (1)Quechua (1)Sumerian (1)Yiddish (1)Yoruba (1)Yucatec Maya (1)Language FamilyAllDescended from Andalusi Arabic and Ibero-Romance speech (1)Turkic, Karluk branch (1)Status TodayAllClosed ceremonial knowledge, described but not reproduced (18)Discontinued as a state religion (18)Entered only through an initiated priesthood (2)Held within an initiatory society (1)Living, and in active revival (1)Living, and practised in varied local forms (37)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (11)Passed on only by initiatory transmission (2)Reconstructed in the modern era and openly practised (10)Parent PeopleAllAkan (1)Andean Peoples (1)Apache (1)Celts (1)Germanic Peoples (3)Maya (2)Polynesians (3)Pueblo Peoples (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 100Aboriginal AustraliansPeoplesAinuPeoplesAkanPeoplesAnanguPeoplesAncient EgyptiansPeoplesAncient GreeksPeoplesAncient RomansPeoplesAndean PeoplesPeoplesAnglo-SaxonsPeoplesApachePeoplesArabsPeoplesAsantePeoplesAshkenazi JewsPeoplesAssyriansPeoplesAztecPeoplesBabyloniansPeoplesBaltsPeoplesBasquesPeoplesCanaanitesPeoplesCayugaPeoplesCeltsPeoplesChamorroPeoplesDogonPeoplesEtruscansPeoplesEvenkiPeoplesFinnic PeoplesPeoplesFonPeoplesFranksPeoplesGaulsPeoplesGermanic PeoplesPeoplesHan ChinesePeoplesHittitesPeoplesHopiPeoplesHurriansPeoplesIgboPeoplesIncaPeoplesInuitPeoplesIsraelitesPeoplesItzaPeoplesJapanese CulturePeoplesKabylePeoplesKalderashPeoplesK'iche' MayaPeoplesKongoPeoplesKoreansPeoplesKulinPeoplesLakotaPeoplesMaasaiPeoplesMaoriPeoplesMayaPeoplesMerinaPeoplesMesoamerican PeoplesPeoplesMesopotamiansPeoplesMohawkPeoplesMongolsPeoplesMoriscosPeoplesNabataeansPeoplesNahuaPeoplesNative HawaiiansPeoplesNavajo (Dine)PeoplesNazcaPeoplesNewarPeoplesNgarrindjeriPeoplesNorsePeoplesOb-Ugric PeoplesPeoplesOjibwePeoplesOneidaPeoplesOnondagaPeoplesOromoPeoplesPersiansPeoplesPhoeniciansPeoplesPhrygiansPeoplesPolynesiansPeoplesPueblo PeoplesPeoplesPunjabisPeoplesQuechuaPeoplesRohingyaPeoplesSamaritansPeoplesSamiPeoplesSamoansPeoplesSanPeoplesSaxonsPeoplesSenecaPeoplesSephardic JewsPeoplesSererPeoplesShonaPeoplesSinhalesePeoplesSlavsPeoplesSumeriansPeoplesTagalogPeoplesTamilsPeoplesTibetansPeoplesTrobriand IslandersPeoplesTurkic PeoplesPeoplesTuscaroraPeoplesUyghursPeoplesWestern ApachePeoplesWiradjuriPeoplesYolnguPeoplesYorubaPeoples12Next →Sources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Wikipedia: Comparative religiontier 2WikipediaComparative religion, opening definitionQuote, Comparative religion, opening definitionComparative religion is the branch of religious studies that systematically compares the doctrines, practices, themes and impacts (including migration) of the worlds religions.View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, Second Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.