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The claims a tradition treats as central, the propositions an adherent is expected to affirm rather than the customs they are expected to keep. This is the largest belief subcategory by a wide margin, reflecting how much of what a tradition holds is filed here by default when it does not fit a narrower belief type such as a dietary restriction or a moral precept.

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What Defines This Grouping

The central affirmations of a tradition, stated one at a time. What counts as a core tenet is set by each tradition, and traditions differ over whether assent to stated propositions is what makes a member: creedal Christianity and Islam draw such lists explicitly, while Judaism, Hinduism and most Indigenous traditions do not. 2

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Standing as a Comparative Category

Used, but its validity as a comparative category is disputed 3

1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree

2. Encyclopedia of Religion

Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source

3. Belief, Language, and Experience

Rodney Needham, Basil Blackwell, 1972

4. Wikipedia: Comparative religion

WikipediaComparative religion, opening definition

Quote, Comparative religion, opening definition

Comparative religion is the branch of religious studies that systematically compares the doctrines, practices, themes and impacts (including migration) of the worlds religions.

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Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions

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God's Attributes Are Real and Are Neither God Nor Other Than God

Good and Evil Are Knowable by Reason

Good and Evil Are Known Only Through Revelation

Good thoughts, good words, good deeds

Halakha is binding and authoritative

Halakha is binding but evolves through scholarship

Halakhic Observance Together with Full Secular Education and Civic Life

Hamingja: Luck as an Inheritable Resource

Harm none (the Wiccan Rede)

Hitbodedut: Unstructured Personal Prayer Spoken Aloud in Solitude

Human beings are responsible for their own meaning and purpose

Human Beings Author Their Own Acts and God Judges Them Justly

Human revolution: inner change as the engine of social change

Ijma: The Consensus of the Scholars Is Binding

Impermanence (anicca)

Individual autonomy in observance

Indulgence and rational self-interest

Infant baptism (paedobaptism)

Initiation into the Khalsa

Initiatory Knowledge Is Restricted to the Lineage and Is Not Taught Outside It

Initiatory lineage and three degrees

Istihsan: A Jurist May Set Aside a Strict Analogy for a Better Ruling

It Is Taboo to Speak the Name of the Recently Dead

Jesus survived the crucifixion

Jewish Identity Rests on History, Culture and Peoplehood Rather Than on God

Judaism as an evolving religious civilization

Juristic Preference Is Not a Valid Source of Law

Justification by faith alone (sola fide)

Kami (sacred spirits in nature)

Karma: action determines future rebirth

Kasb: God Creates Every Act and the Human Being Acquires It

Kayaka: Labour Itself Is Worship

Kensho, seeing into one's own nature

Khidma: Work Done for the Shaykh Is Itself Worship

Kitman: The Community May Withhold Its Identity Under Hostile Rule

Koan introspection as the means of awakening

Kosen-rufu: peace through the wide propagation of the teaching

Krishna Is the Supreme Person, Not an Avatar of Vishnu

Lamdre, the path and its fruit

Landvaettir: The Land's Own Spirits

Leadership by the most qualified elected imam

Liberation Comes Through Knowledge Rather Than Works or Devotion

Lineage of the Celestial Masters

Liturgy Is Rewritten to Remove Reference to a Supernatural God

Love your neighbor as yourself

Mahamudra, the Great Seal

Mahavairocana as the cosmic Buddha who preaches the Dharma

Mappo, the latter age of the decline of the Dharma

Marriage as a covenant between one man and one woman

Married ritual priesthood

Mary Confessed as Mother of Christ Rather Than Mother of God

Meat must be slaughtered halal

Meat must be slaughtered kosher (shechita)

Memorialism

Miaphysitism (one incarnate nature of Christ)

Miracles and revealed prophecy are not credible

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the promised Messiah and Mahdi

Moksha: liberation from rebirth

Monastic celibacy and asceticism (Complete Reality)

Monks and nuns wear white robes (white-clad)

Monks practice nudity (sky-clad)

Morality is grounded in human welfare, not divine command

Music and Dance Have No Place on the Path

Mystical union with God (fana)

Nahui Ollin: The Sun Requires Blood to Keep Moving

Naturalist conception of God

Nichiren as the True Buddha of the Latter Day

Nirvana: the end of suffering

No halal or kosher ritual meat (kutha)

No tobacco or intoxicants

Non-theistic activist Satanism

Nontrinitarianism

Nonviolent direct action as Christian witness

Norse and Saxon deities (Woden and Freya)

Numen: The Presence and Will of a Power at Work

Observance of Both Saturday and Sunday as Holy Days

Observe the Sabbath (Shabbat)

One formless God (Ik Onkar)

Open communion

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