Articles

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Long form writing on figures, events, ideas and controversies across every tradition the atlas covers, distinct from the shorter facts on the subject's own page. An article takes on a single topic in depth, from a saint's life to a doctrinal dispute to the history of a sacred site, usually running well beyond what a fact card can hold.

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Entries in the Atlas: 31331

Ordination Distinct From Teaching Authority

Ordination to Ministry

Ordination Within Daoist Lineages

Ordination, Return and Execution

Ordnung as Renewed, Not Fixed, Discipline

Orenda in Haudenosaunee Thought

Orenda's Place in the Comparative Study of Religion

Organisation and Present Reach

Organisations of secular humanism

Organised Forms Without Central Authority

Organised in 1842, on an Unusually Broad Charter

Organising a Month of Nightly Prayer

Organising a Revival

Organising the French Revival

Organising What Remains Instead of Fighting the Collapse

Organized Practice in Its Modern Homeland

Organized Religion Begins in Sichuan

Organizers of the 1955 Istanbul Pogrom Never Held Accountable

Orienting the Sacred

Origin in the Puranas and the Two Lines of Descent

Origin, as the Tradition Tells It

Originator: The Angels and the Two Seas

Origins and Autocephaly

Origins and Confessional Statement

Origins and Development

Origins and Spread of the Stupa Form

Origins and the Succession Dispute

Origins by the Tigris and Place in the Canon

Origins in a Healing Testimony

Origins in Detroit

Origins in the Cult of Saturn

Origins of Qawwali

Origins of the Common Version

Origins: An Unresolved Question, and a Borrowing That Runs the Other Way

Origins: Wesley, Coke and the Naming Dispute

Oriki for the Orisha

Orion, the Hunter of the Winter Sky

Orixas Behind Saints' Faces

Orixas, Axe and the Terreiro

Ornament of Shiva

Ornaments of Gold: Wealth Is No Measure of Worth

Orphic, Orphism, and a Word That Has Been Made to Carry Too Much

Orpiment, Realgar, and the Alchemical Arsenic

Orthodox Church Schism Amid the Russian Invasion

Orthodoxy Defined by Statute

Orthodoxy, Eclipse and Revival

Orun and Aye

Orungan's Pursuit and the Birth of the Orisha From a Mother's Body

Orunmila and the Name Ifa

Os and Its Elder Futhark Cognate, Ansuz

Os in the Old English Rune Poem

Oscar Romero, From Archbishop to Saint

Oshun in Yellow, Recognized by Name

Osiris and the Democratization of the Afterlife

Osiris Walking, and the Flood Behind Him

Osogbo: A Grove the World Agreed to Protect

Osram Ne Nsoromma: A Star Kept Close To Its Moon

Ostracism, Exile at the Persian Court, and a Disputed Death

Oswald Heer and the Seeds the Swiss Lake Dwellings Kept

Othala as a Letter on an Object

Other Power

Ottoman Centuries and the Modern Patriarchate

Otu and the Greek Layer of the Alphabet

Otu: The Glagolitic Letter (Value 700)

Ou and the Dialects of Written Coptic

Ou: The Coptic Letter (Value 70), from Greek Omicron

Ouidah, the Atlantic and What Crossed It

Our Lord the Flayed One, and the Husk of the Seed

Out of Leo, in 2012

Out of Nothing, and When the Idea Arrived

Out or Tucked in, and an Argument About Wool

Outer Washing, Inner Clearing

Outer, Inner and Other

Outgrowing the Praetexta

Outliving the Dynasty That Commissioned It

Outnumbered by Its Own Visitors Every Year

Outside the Canon, Everywhere in the Galleries

Outside the Cycle, Not Higher within It

Outside the Inhabited World

Outwitting Death and Rising as the Sun and Moon