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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

Status

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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The Orit in Ge'ez Is Scripture and There Is No Talmudic Literature

The Pali Canon (Tipitaka) as authoritative scripture

The Phenomenal World of Illness and Suffering Is Not Ultimately Real

The Pig Is Impure and Forbidden as Food

The Quran Alone Binds and Hadith Carries No Legal Authority

The Quran is created

The Quran Is Uncreated and Eternal

The resurrection of Christ

The Revised Julian Calendar for the Fixed Feasts

The Rightly Guided Caliphate

The Settled Practice of the People of Medina Is a Source of Law

The Seven Ecumenical Councils as the Complete Dogmatic Deposit

The Seven Fold Way

The Seven Fundamental Tenets

The Six Yogas of Naropa

The Soul Passes Through Successive Bodies

The Sources of Law Are Four and the List Is Closed

The Sri Yantra Is the Goddess in Geometric Form

The state should be secular and neutral among beliefs

The Sunna Recorded in Hadith Is a Binding Source of Law

The System Requires No Creator God

The Tao as the source of all things

The Ten Commandments

The Three Ecumenical Councils as the Complete Dogmatic Deposit

The three mysteries of body, speech and mind

The Three Souls and ecstatic personal power

The Threefold Law

The threefold truth: emptiness, provisional existence and the middle

The Torah is divinely revealed and binding

The Turning Ceremony Is a Form of Contemplative Worship

The Twelve Imams and the occultation of the Mahdi

The Two Ecumenical Councils as the Complete Dogmatic Deposit

The two truths, conventional and ultimate

The unity of all religions

The universe is natural, with nothing beyond it

The via media (middle way)

The World Is the Free Self-Expression of a Single Consciousness, Not an Illusion

The World's Plurality Is an Appearance Superimposed by Ignorance

Theistic Satanism (Satan or Set as a real being)

Theodore of Mopsuestia as the Authoritative Interpreter of Scripture

Theosis (deification)

There is no god (strong atheism)

There Is No Original Sin and No Substitutionary Atonement

This life is the only life there is

Thought Directed Rightly Shapes Health and Circumstance

Three thousand realms in a single moment of thought (ichinen sanzen)

Transubstantiation

Two Qnome in One Parsopa, the Christology of the Church of the East

Unleavened Bread and Unmixed Wine in the Eucharist

Usury (riba) is forbidden

Vegetarianism is preferred

Veneration of Ali as a divine manifestation

Vishnu as the supreme deity

Visiting Tombs to Seek Intercession Is Forbidden

Visualization of inner and celestial deities

Wahdat al-Shuhud: The Unity Perceived Is of Witness, Not of Being

Wahdat al-Wujud: All That Exists Is One Reality

Weekly observance of the Lord's Supper

Whether any god exists is unknown and may be unknowable

Witchcraft as feminist and activist spirituality

Withstanding Fire and Blades Testifies to the Saint's State

Women can attain liberation

Women must be reborn as men to attain liberation

Worship centered on public shrines

Worship of five deities as forms of one Brahman (panchayatana)

Wu wei (effortless action)

Wyrd and Orlog: The Weave of Fate

Yin and yang