Home›Cosmological Beliefs›Affirmation OfBrowse ByAffirmation OfThis page groups beliefs by the specific claim each one affirms as true. Wikipedia notes that "a belief is a subjective attitude that something is true or a state of affairs is the case." Browsing by affirmation-of lets a visitor find every belief that affirms the same underlying claim.FactsLearn MoreAffirmation OfSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedStatements about the structure and history of the world and its beings - creation, world ages, the shape of the cosmos, the fate of the dead - held as articles of a tradition rather than as speculation. The accounts gathered here answer different questions: an origin of the world and a recurring destruction of it are not the same kind of claim. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1Learn MoreThe Cosmological Beliefs This group gathers cosmological beliefs, the teachings of the traditions about the structure, origin and destiny of the cosmos: how the world came to be, how it is ordered, and how it will end. Every tradition frames human life within some such account of the whole. The browser will find the cosmological beliefs the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, reporting the tradition's own account rather than reconciling the many differing pictures.Affirmation OfFilter Results15 entriesDoctrinal CategoryAllAction, Rebirth and Consequence (3)Mind, Self and Emptiness (4)Salvation and Liberation (2)Origin Period End YearAll500 BCE (2)400 BCE (3)300 BCE (1)200 (1)450 (2)800 (1)1400 (1)1563 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1000 BCE (1)800 BCE (3)500 BCE (3)100 BCE (1)350 (1)400 (1)1274 (1)1300 (1)Standing as a Comparative CategoryAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (15)Status Within the TraditionAllBinding, without a formal definition (1)Defined and binding within this tradition (1)Defined and binding within this tradition (1)Defined and binding within this tradition (3)Defined and binding within this tradition (1)Genuinely disputed within this tradition (2)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (1)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (1)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (1)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (1)Standard teaching, not formally defined (3)Standard teaching, not formally defined (1)The mainstream position, not formally binding (1)The teaching of one school or lineage within the tradition (1)The teaching of one school or lineage within the tradition (2)SubjectAllDeath, rebirth and destiny (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAnattaAffirmation Of1 entryAnekantavadaAffirmation Of1 entryBardoAffirmation Of1 entryDependent originationAffirmation Of1 entryKarmaAffirmation Of1 entryMokshaAffirmation Of1 entryNirvanaAffirmation Of1 entryPrakritiAffirmation Of1 entryPurgatoryAffirmation Of1 entryPurushaAffirmation Of1 entrySamsaraAffirmation Of1 entrySunyataAffirmation Of1 entryThe Threefold LawAffirmation Of1 entryWahdat al-ShuhudAffirmation Of1 entryWahdat al-WujudAffirmation Of1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. CosmologyView 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.