This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
A doctrine, in the atlas's vocabulary, is a formal teaching a religious body holds to be true, something a member is asked to believe rather than something a member is asked to do. That distinction is why doctrine is kept apart from ritual and observance here: the Trinity, karma, the finality of prophecy, dependent origination and the inerrancy of scripture are all doctrines, while baptism, fasting and pilgrimage are practices that a doctrine may explain but never replaces.
Each doctrine entry can be linked to many different bodies at once, and every one of those links carries its own stance. A body may hold a doctrine outright, hold a different account of it, argue against it without fully refusing it, or reject it outright, and the atlas records all four positions side by side rather than collapsing them into a single averaged answer. That is what lets a reader compare, for instance, how differently the historic branches of a single tradition read the same inherited teaching, disagreement and all, in the tradition's own terms rather than in a summary written from outside it.
A single doctrine entry can therefore sit at the center of many separate comparisons at once, since every body that holds, disputes or simply has never addressed a given teaching can be linked to it, and the resulting picture is closer to a map of where agreement and disagreement actually fall than any one tradition's own account of the same question would be on its own.