Ndembu

We see this with Shinto, Ndembu religion, and many forms of Buddhism, just to offer a few examples.

Philocrites: Oppenheimer's definition of religion. 2006

Only in the present century has the subject moved nearer to home and given a central place to 'culture': as participant-observers, anthropologists by now study the culture of a high-energy accelerator laboratory or a leather bar as readily as they will that of the Ndembu.

The Evolution of Margaret Mead Toulmin, Stephen 1984

The Kongo nation, with its sub-tribes, the Luangu, Buende, Sundi, Solongo, Ndembu, Hungu and Pangu, is evangelized by seven or eight Protestant missionary societies, in addition to the thrice centenarian work of the Catholic church.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896

My cuñada likes to tell the story of the Ndembu tooth-extraction ritual.

Varieties of Unreligious Experience 2008

Anthropological respect is accorded only to the superstitions of darkest Africa, as to those of the Ndembu in Zambia-superstitions that are not discomfortably close to home, and which, for this very reason, present no threat of fantastical transmutation, of bouleversement.

Varieties of Unreligious Experience 2008