Island religions

[hindupridemn]

How do these cultures' religions and mythologies differ roother and the more dominant religions braught in from elsewhere?:

Balinese
Javanese
Melanesian
Modekngei (Palau)
Philippine traditional religion
Hawaiian

 

[painted wolf]

Well for starters the Hawaiian native faith is a polytheistic and highly diverse even between particular islands and even kin groups.

In Java the native religions are animistic as opposed to the introduced faiths.

wa:do

 

[Iti oj]

i have read a book on Hawaiian shamanism...idk if this helps you... i can not remember to much since i read many books an shamanism and i lost this book ....but they practice shamanism with some anamism animals weather and volcanos play a role..

 

[Sylvan]

I could give you 15+ titles of ethnographic study and speculation in this field and you wouldn't even begin to scratch the surface.

There are hundreds of language families in "Melanesia" alone.