Mapped here are people called by the World Christian Database 'Ethnoreligionists', defined as 'A collective term for primal or primitive religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples).'
Territory size shows the proportion of the world's Pagans living there. |