World Traditions
Living spiritual traditions from around the world.
Ainu Spirituality: Kamuy and the Bear Ceremony
How the Ainu live in exchange with the spirits around them
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Alevism: Turkey's Misunderstood Minority Tradition
What Alevis in Turkey actually believe, and why it is misunderstood
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The Bahai Faith: One Revelation, Many Messengers
What Bahais believe about one God and many messengers
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Bon: Tibet's Fifth Tradition and Its Claim to Predate Buddhism
Bon, the Tibetan faith that says it came before Buddhism
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Cao Dai: The Vietnamese Faith With Victor Hugo as a Saint
Cao Dai, the Vietnamese faith that counts Victor Hugo as a saint
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Confucianism vs Taoism: Two Answers to the Same Country
Confucianism or Taoism? Two old answers to how you should live
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Modern Druidry: What Reconstruction Actually Looks Like
Drawn to druidry? What modern practice really is, and is not
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The Druze: A Closed Faith You Cannot Convert Into
The Druze faith: why you cannot convert into it, and what they believe
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Gnosticism Explained: The Demiurge, Sophia and the Christianity That Lost
Gnosticism and the secret knowledge it said would free you
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Hellenic Polytheism: Worshipping the Greek Gods Now
How people worship the Greek gods today, rebuilt from old texts
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Hoodoo vs Voodoo: Two Different Things Entirely
Think Hoodoo and Voodoo are the same? They are not, and here is why
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Jainism and Ahimsa: Non-Violence Taken to Its Limit
How Jains live non-violence in every step, meal and word
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Kabbalah's Tree of Life: The Ten Sefirot for Beginners
The ten sefirot of the Tree of Life, explained for beginners
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Kemetic Spirituality: Egyptian Religion Reconstructed
How people worship the ancient Egyptian gods today, and how to begin
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The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics and John the Baptist
Meet the Mandaeans, the last Gnostics, who honor John the Baptist
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Quakers: An Hour of Silence as a Form of Worship
What happens in an hour of Quaker silence, if you want to sit in
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Rastafari: The Theology Behind the Iconography
What Rastafari believe, beyond the colors you already know
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The Samaritans: Fewer Than a Thousand People and Two Thousand Years
The 900 Samaritans who still keep their own Torah and priests
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Santeria and Lucumi: The Orishas and an Initiatory Path
Santeria and Lucumi explained: the orishas and how people enter
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Shamanism: One Word Doing Too Much Work
Why shamanism means very different things in different cultures
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Shinto: Kami, Shrines and a Religion Without a Founder
Shinto, the faith with no founder that still shapes Japan's year
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Sikhism: The Ten Gurus and the Living Book
Sikhism's ten Gurus, its living book, and the kitchen open to all
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Spiritualism as a Religion: Beliefs, the Seven Principles and Social History
Hoping to reach someone you lost? What Spiritualism believes and why
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Sufism Explained: The Inward Path of Islam and Its Orders
Sufism: the inward path of Islam, its dhikr and orders, explained
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Tenrikyo: Japan's Religion of the Joyous Life
Tenrikyo and its teaching that you were made for a joyful life
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Unitarian Universalism: A Religion Without a Required Creed
A religion with no required creed: what Unitarian Universalists share
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Haitian Vodou vs Hollywood Voodoo: Correcting the Record
What you saw in films is not Vodou. Here is the real religion
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The Yazidis: A Faith Persecuted for a Misreading
Who the Yazidis are, what they believe, and why they were persecuted
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Zoroastrianism: Beliefs, Fire Temples and the Parsi Community Today
Zoroastrianism, the faith built on your duty to choose the good
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