> [..] For sci.lang. and a.u.e. readers it should be obvious that the > defining feature must be the common origin of the religious > traditions and mytho- and theologies. And that their diverting > developments, including loans and substrates, is a field of study.
... and that one should leave the self-identification to the selves, and the question of whether or not something is a system of it's own or part of something else to those who care.