Home›Core Tenets›Status Within the Tradition›Standard teaching, not formally definedBrowse ByStandard teaching, not formally definedThis page groups beliefs by their standing within a body of teaching. Wikipedia notes that "beliefs are the subject of various important philosophical debates," including how "fine-grained or coarse-grained" a given belief actually is. Browsing by status-within-the-tradition lets a visitor tell a settled belief from a contested one.FactsLearn MoreStandard teaching, not formally definedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe 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. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedUsed, but its validity as a comparative category is disputed 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1ComparisonPrimary Academic DisciplineWell-attestedComparative Religion 4Learn MoreThe core tenets This group gathers the core tenets of the traditions, the central affirmations and defining beliefs that stand at the heart of a religion or worldview, the doctrines a tradition holds as essential to its identity. It is the largest belief grouping in the atlas. The browser will find the core tenets the atlas gathers from across the traditions. 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Ministry Answers Requests Sent from AnywhereStandard teaching, not formally definedA Divine Element Is Trapped in Matter and Wakes Through KnowledgeStandard teaching, not formally definedA lay movement without a priesthoodStandard teaching, not formally definedA married clergy and no monastic ruleStandard teaching, not formally definedA person carries a ka, the vital force needing offerings after death, and a ba, the mobile aspect of self that can leave the tomb and move between the dead and the living.Standard teaching, not formally definedAbd al-Qadir al-Jilani Is the Supreme Helper Among the SaintsStandard teaching, not formally definedAn Eastern Liturgical Rite in Full Communion With RomeStandard teaching, not formally definedAncestors continue to watch over and can bless or punish their living descendantsStandard teaching, not formally definedBarakah: Blessing Flows Through the Saints and Their TombsStandard teaching, not formally definedBeyond the great state gods, each person had a personal god, an ili, who watched over them individually and explained private suffering or fortune when appeased or neglected.Standard teaching, not formally definedBuddhahood in this very body (sokushin jobutsu)Standard teaching, not formally definedClosed communionStandard teaching, not formally definedConnexionalismStandard teaching, not formally definedContemplative Prayer Worked Through the Faculties of Chochmah, Binah and DaatStandard teaching, not formally definedDaimoku: chanting Nam Myoho Renge KyoStandard teaching, not formally definedDhikr Is Made Aloud in AssemblyStandard teaching, not formally definedDhikr Is Made Silently in the HeartStandard teaching, not formally definedEsoteric and exoteric teaching as oneStandard teaching, not formally definedEternal security of the believerStandard teaching, not formally definedFormal debate as a means of realizationStandard teaching, not formally definedGod Is an Indwelling Principle of Good Rather Than a Being Apart from the WorldStandard teaching, not formally definedGod Is Omnipresent and That Presence Is the Only RealityStandard teaching, not formally definedHalakhic Observance Together with Full Secular Education and Civic LifeStandard teaching, not formally definedHuman revolution: inner change as the engine of social changeStandard teaching, not formally definedIt Is Taboo to Speak the Name of the Recently DeadStandard teaching, not formally definedJewish Identity Rests on History, Culture and Peoplehood Rather Than on GodStandard teaching, not formally definedKasb: God Creates Every Act and the Human Being Acquires ItStandard teaching, not formally definedKensho, seeing into one's own natureStandard teaching, not formally definedKhidma: Work Done for the Shaykh Is Itself WorshipStandard teaching, not formally definedKitman: The Community May Withhold Its Identity Under Hostile RuleStandard teaching, not formally definedKoan introspection as the means of awakeningStandard teaching, not formally definedKosen-rufu: peace through the wide propagation of the teachingStandard teaching, not formally definedLiturgy Is Rewritten to Remove Reference to a Supernatural GodStandard teaching, not formally definedMahavairocana as the cosmic Buddha who preaches the DharmaStandard teaching, not formally definedMemorialismStandard teaching, not formally definedNahui Ollin: The Sun Requires Blood to Keep MovingStandard teaching, not formally definedOpen communionStandard teaching, not formally definedOther-power (tariki): liberation comes from Amida's vow and not from one's own effortStandard teaching, not formally definedPapal primacy and infallibilityStandard teaching, not formally definedPax Deorum: The Peace of the Gods as the Aim of CultStandard teaching, not formally definedPerfect holiness attained at conversionStandard teaching, not formally definedPractice and realization are oneStandard teaching, not formally definedPurgatoryStandard teaching, not formally definedPurity and Pollution Govern Approach to the KamiStandard teaching, not formally definedReligion Is Not Merely Mistaken but Harmful and Should Be Criticised OpenlyStandard teaching, not formally definedReligious Guidance Passes Through Hereditary Holy LineagesStandard teaching, not formally definedRestoration of the New Testament churchStandard teaching, not formally definedScripture as witness rather than as historyStandard teaching, not formally definedScripture Is Read as Metaphysical AllegoryStandard teaching, not formally definedSeth Is the Ancestor of a Saved Race and a RevealerStandard teaching, not formally definedShikantaza, just sittingStandard teaching, not formally definedShinjin, entrusting faith, as the cause of birth in the Pure LandStandard teaching, not formally definedShiva as the supreme deityStandard teaching, not formally definedSoul liberty and the separation of church and stateStandard teaching, not formally definedSpiritual Mind Treatment: Affirmative Prayer Directed at a ConditionStandard teaching, not formally definedSpiritual presence (real presence received by faith)Standard teaching, not formally definedSubscription to a confession of faithStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Amsterdam Declaration States the Fundamental Principles of HumanismStandard teaching, not formally definedThe bardo, the intermediate state between death and rebirthStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Cem Is the Community's Central Act of WorshipStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Chain of Transmission Runs Through Abu BakrStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Clergy Are Kessoch, Priests Rather Than RabbisStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Creator of This World Is a Lesser Power Beneath the True GodStandard teaching, not formally definedThe graduated path to enlightenment (lamrim)Standard teaching, not formally definedThe historic episcopateStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Humanist Manifesto Is a Revisable Statement, Not a CreedStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Karmapa line as the first recognized succession of reincarnate teachersStandard teaching, not formally definedThe middle way avoids both eternalism and annihilationismStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Movement Appoints No Successor and Has No Living RebbeStandard teaching, not formally definedThe nembutsu is said in gratitude and not to earn meritStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Orit in Ge'ez Is Scripture and There Is No Talmudic LiteratureStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Phenomenal World of Illness and Suffering Is Not Ultimately RealStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Six Yogas of NaropaStandard teaching, not formally definedThe three mysteries of body, speech and mindStandard teaching, not formally definedThe Turning Ceremony Is a Form of Contemplative WorshipStandard teaching, not formally definedThere Is No Original Sin and No Substitutionary AtonementStandard teaching, not formally definedThought Directed Rightly Shapes Health and CircumstanceStandard teaching, not formally definedWyrd and Orlog: The Weave of FateStandard teaching, not formally definedSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source3. Belief, Language, and Experiencetier 1Rodney Needham, Basil Blackwell, 19724. Wikipedia: Comparative religiontier 2WikipediaComparative religion, opening definitionQuote, Comparative religion, opening definitionComparative religion is the branch of religious studies that systematically compares the doctrines, practices, themes and impacts (including migration) of the worlds religions.View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.