This would be incompatible with any form of neutrality or Western conceptions of non-alignment.

The characteristic of comprehensive tolerance to differences in belief, and Hinduism's openness, makes it difficult to define as a religion according to traditional Western conceptions.

First, and most intuitive to Western conceptions of persons, is the ontological dimension.

This differs from the Western conception of personhood in that people, in Akan traditional thought, are not born as willed beings.

The rites of li are not rites in the Western conception of religious custom.

What does modernity look like, separate from its Western conception?

"The mind set has been influenced too much in one direction - the Western conception, the Western ideas, the Western way of doing business," he argues.

This was evident in the Western conception of God at this time.

Western conceptions of land have evolved over the past several centuries to place greater emphasis on individual land ownership, formalized through documents such as land titles.

The Western conception of marriage has been replaced by "walking marriages" or "visiting relations," in which partners do not live in the same household.