but some are Christians or follow their traditional religion. Despite resisting Islamization and jihads for almost a millennium, having been persecuted for centuries, most of the Serers who converted to Islam converted as recently as the 1990s, in part, trying to escape discrimination and disenfranchisement by the majority Muslim groups surrounding them, who still view the Serers as "the object of scorn and prejudice."

Traditional Serer religious practices encompass ancient chants and poems,