Why do we believe or not? What do believers practice and why? Why do some aspects of faith endure while others do not? At the heart of religious ethnology is the study of foreign belief systems, worldviews, myths, religious practices, and concepts of salvation. Religious ethnology examines what people believe and what they practice daily, whether they live on remote islands or in a global metropolis. This is because religion is part of culture and society and is always intertwined with questions of identity, social justice, and equality.