"Primal Religions 1Primal Religions By (Name) The Name of the Class (Course) Professor (Tutor) The Name of the School (University) The City and State where it is located The Date Primal Religions 2Primal Religions Primal religions refer to the religions that involve the indigenous peoples’ spiritualpractices (Sharma, 2006). Human beings started worshiping long time ago in different forms,including animal worship. Ways of worship differed based on the locality of the indigenouspeople across the world. This paper will consider the characteristics of primal religions and howthe primal religions are different from the modern religions, including Christianity, Sikhism,Islam, and Hinduism. The primal regions have the characteristic of oral traditions and animism. People mayview the primal religion as magic, with the implication that the religion was unsystematic andundeveloped. Therefore, people consider the primal region as primitive because it does notinvolve written words. In the contemporary society, religions, such as Christianity, Sikhism,Islam, and Hinduism involve the use of holy texts (Sharma, 2006). Indigenous people haveadvanced belief systems, including complex rituals and fundamental symbolism and mythology.The members portray extraordinary memorization powers and unique ways of telling traditionsand beliefs of their societies. Indigenous people pass the spiritual insights and complex ideas tothe descendants orally. In some cases, the indigenous people communicated to their descendantsby recording the beliefs as bark carvings and paintings in rocks (Sharma, 2006). Primal religiondepicts that human beings have a connection with the world and gods. Industrialization andmodern technologies have made individuals adopt the modern religions and forget about theprimal religions.Primal Religions 3 In conclusion, primal religions are the earliest religions of the world that involves avariety of spiritual practices, including animal worship. People memorized the traditions andbeliefs, which they communicated to the descendants through the word of mouth (Sharma,2006). Therefore, the primal religions are different from the modern religions, which involve theuse of holy texts. Industrialization and modern technologies have affected the primal religionsnegatively (Sharma, 2006)."