 In religious studies, an ethnic religion or indigenous religion is a religion associated with a particular ethnic group. Ethnic religions are often distinguished from universal religions which claim to not be limited in ethnic or national scope, such as Christianity or Islam or Buddhism or Jainism.1 Ethnic religions are not only independent religions. Some localized denominations of global religions are practiced solely by certain ethnic groups. For example, the obscurians have a unique denominational structure of Christianity known as the Assyrian Church of the East.