Home›Alchemists›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups historical figures by the religious tradition they belonged to or helped shape, connecting a person to the belief system that claims them. Wikipedia describes a tradition as "a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past." Browsing this way lets a visitor read every founder, reformer or teacher from one tradition together, rather than finding them scattered by century.FactsTraditionConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHistorical Figures 1TraditionFilter Results4 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (3)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (2)Era of Decline End YearAll500 (1)1976 (1)Era of Decline Start YearAll300 (1)1966 (1)Establishment StatusAllVaries by Province (2)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (2)2011-01-27 (1)2011-12-19 (1)2016-01-01 (1)2018-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (2)2021-01-01 (1)2023-08-30 (1)Origin Period End YearAll50 (1)142 (1)200 (1)632 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll400 BCE (1)30 (1)100 (1)610 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage may licitly be polygynous (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)The body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (1)Position on UsuryAllInterest of any kind on a loan is forbidden (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (2)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTwo and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllHistorical; not practised continuously (1)Living tradition, practised today (3)TheologyAllDualist: two opposed cosmic principles (1)Emanationist: reality proceeds from an ineffable One (1)Monistic: one ultimate reality behind all appearance (1)Monotheistic: one God (2)Polytheistic: many gods (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareChristianityTradition2 entriesGnosticismTradition1 entryIslamTradition1 entryTaoismTradition1 entryConnectionsAssociated WithChina, Countries Well-attested This source names China directly: "of Hellenistic Egypt and medieval China through the Renaissance physician-alchemists to Isaac Newton's own biblical chronology and unpublished alchemical notebooks."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Egypt, Countries Well-attested This source names Egypt directly: "from the furnaces of Hellenistic Egypt and medieval China through the Renaissance physician-alchemists to Isaac Newton's own biblical chronology and unpublished alchemical notebooks."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Divinity 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.