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Living tradition, practised today

This page groups denominations by whether they still have living adherents today. Wikipedia notes that the Mandaeans "are the last surviving Gnostics from antiquity," a denomination-like religious group reduced to a small surviving remnant. Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a thriving denomination apart from one that has nearly died out.

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Standing as a Comparative Category
Contested: denomination is a category borrowed from Christianity. Organised atheism has movements, societies and campaigns; it does not have denominations, and it does not claim to. 2
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What Defines This Grouping
Organised currents within atheism. Atheism has no creed, no church and no authority, so what is grouped here are identifiable public movements and societies rather than denominations in any confessional sense. 2
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Currents within atheism

This small group holds an organised or defined current within atheism, the position that there are no gods. Atheism is not a religion and has no creed or church; what the atlas gathers here are the identifiable movements and stances that have given atheistic thought a public and organised form.

The browser will find the entry describing such a current in its own terms. The atlas treats atheism as a philosophical position with its own history rather than as a variant of belief.

Living tradition, practised today
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Oxford Handbook of Atheism
Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2013
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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