Does anyone know the current religious views of the aboriginals and tribal populations of the world?

Question

I was just curious how populations untouched by Christianity view religion. What they follow and understand to be the life and afterlife.

Curious about similarities and differences of a religion that is not being used as a form of government and financial control. How they are similar and different.

Maybe some interesting sites would be welcome.

Answer 1

sadly any information on tribal religions are almost purely from the views of white males. anthropology has some realization now that much of its data is false.

until the descriptions are written by the people of the religion themselves its tough to know how they were affected by Christianity. as a youth i once joined a catholic missionary training group and had a big fight with the priest. they were training us to literally look down on these people as godless savages and told us NOT to feed them or help them until they learned and prayed to the christian god, Jesus. And mind you, this wasn't even the historically accurate brown skin/brown eyed, Jesus, but the light skin blue eyes version. A kind of German Jesus most of us are familiar with.

so i assume the christian society has messed up most of these isolated groups.

by the way i am no longer christian. i read philosophy and Confucius teachings now. humility is a concept lost in America.

Answer 2

I think they are mostly animists.

Answer 3

They are most likely animistic. I'll do some research now, and if I find anything, I'll edit my answer.

Answer 4

There is a very interesting book called "Mutant Message Down Under". You get to decide if it's an actual first-person account, but author says the aboriginal accounts are accurate.