Indigenous religions

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Indigenous religions
Concerning the Indigenous religions, the article “Indigenous religions face persecution in Asia and around the world” states that spirituality plays a significant role. However, their exceptional spirituality is regularly misunderstood by strangers and could lead to their social persecution. Indigenous religions happen to be overlooked, overlapped, interwoven and discriminated against larger traditions (First Peoples Worldwide n.p). For the Indigenous religions, the ocean and land are sacred. Yet, they are forced out of their oceans and lands for development that doesn’t benefit them.
My thoughts concerning the Indigenous communities encountering political marginalization is that the practice is unfair and outdated in the modern world. Marginalization could be comprehended as persistent adversity and inequality resulting from social stigma, discrimination, and stereotypes. Whereas associates of marginalized people share joint challenges to their capability to partake political processes, there’re also disparities in socio-economic status, age, geography or gender that could influence them in diverse ways. Associates of a marginalized population can face “triple” or “double” exclusion due to their age, gender or any other characteristics. As explained in the article, Indigenous communities encounter political marginalization, lack of land rights, discrimination, and eviction among others (First Peoples Worldwide n.p). Thus, my thoughts are that the Indigenous religions people continue to suffer despite the freedom of worship across the world.

The dominant religions like Christianity took part in diminishing the Indigenous practice. The outline of Christianity like a dominant religion influenced indigenous faith values, systems, cultures, and traditions. Christians and missionaries took the Bible to the indigenous people as the discovered God’s authoritative word. The Christians condemned the indigenous people’s living cultures and traditions as devilish. Also, they termed their culture and religion as inferior and a religion that lacks any scheme of thought, without spirituality and morality (First Peoples Worldwide n.p). In addition, the education structure introduced by the missionaries ruined traditional indigenous dialects and excepted indigenous antiquity in workbooks, thereby devaluing indigenous acquaintance and the responsibility of indigenous females in moving traditional knowledge and communitarian ideals. Thus, all those perceptions and practices by Christians devalued the Indigenous experience.
Works Cited
First Peoples Worldwide. “Indigenous Religions Face Persecution in Asia and Around the World.” Homepage | Cultural Survival, 27 June 2013, www.culturalsurvival.org/news/indigenous-religions-face-persecution-asia-and-around-world. Accessed 5 Dec. 2018.