Home›Abrahamic Sites›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups sacred sites by the specific religion or culture that consecrated them. Wikipedia defines a sacred space as "a designated area, often marked by physical boundaries or symbols, that is considered holy or consecrated by a particular religion or culture." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every site belonging to one tradition together.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedPlaces held holy by more than one of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, each on its own grounds. The atlas records each tradition's claim separately and does not treat one tradition's name for a place as the place's own name, or one tradition's account of why it is holy as the account. 2Peoples and Traditions CoveredWell-attestedJudaism, Christianity and Islam - three distinct traditions, not one religion in three branches. A place in this group is holy to each of them, and each states different reasons for holding it so. 3StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedContested. "Abrahamic" is widely used but disputed as a comparative category: it is a modern coinage that projects a shared, unchanging core onto three traditions which describe their relation to Abraham in incompatible ways, and it can obscure as much as it groups. 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedSacred Sites 1Learn MoreShared Abrahamic sacred sites This small group gathers a sacred site shared across the Abrahamic traditions, a place holy to more than one of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, reflecting their common heritage and, often, their overlapping and contested claims. The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes its significance to the several traditions that hold it sacred and, where relevant, the history of shared and disputed veneration.TraditionFilter Results1 entryAdherents Today MaximumAll14,800,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll14,800,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)Establishment StatusAllDeclared Not Established (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2013-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll400 BCE (1)Origin Period Start YearAll586 BCE (1)Position on SexualityAllThe body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (1)Position on UsuryAllInterest is permitted but bound by ethical constraints against exploiting the poor (1)Practice StatusAllPartly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTen percent. (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)TheologyAllMonotheistic: one God (1)Show ResultsJudaismTradition2 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Do We Worship the Same God? Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialoguetier 1Miroslav Volf (ed.), William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012Introduction3. Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of Historytier 1Aaron W. Hughes, Oxford University Press, 2012Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.