Why is the Aboriginal religion referred to as mythology but the Christian and Islamic mythologies referred to as religion?

Answer 1

AnswerThey say that the victor gets to write history. In this case, the victor is Christianity, which has all but eliminated the traditional aboriginal religions, and convinced the Australian aborigines that what they had believed was not worthy of belief; it was not religion, but merely mythology or perhaps 'culture' at best. As a result, those who see Christianity as representing the very worst of a colonial period do not seek a return to their old religious beliefs, but look for spirituality elsewhere, principally in Islam.