Home›Dietary Practices›Category of Practice›DietaryBrowse ByDietaryThis page groups practices by their general category. Wikipedia notes that such practices "would include (but not necessarily be limited to) prayer, sacrifice, votive offerings, competitions, processions and construction of monuments." Browsing by category lets a visitor compare a devotional practice against a communal or a constructive one performed for the same underlying purpose.FactsLearn MoreDietarySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe keeping of a tradition's food rules as an ongoing discipline, as distinct from the rules themselves, which the atlas records as beliefs. What is kept differs in kind - a legal standard of permitted species and slaughter, a vow of restricted fare for a set period, an abstention grounded in non-injury - and these do not substitute for one another. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedPractices 1Learn MoreThe dietary practices This group gathers dietary practices, the religious disciplines governing what, when and how the faithful eat: fasting, abstinence, vegetarianism, and rules of permitted and forbidden food. Diet is a daily and visible marker of religious identity and discipline in many traditions. The browser will find dietary practices from various traditions. The entries describe each practice's rules and rationale, noting the tradition that prescribes it.DietaryFilter Results10 entriesOrigin Period Start YearAll-600 (1)-200 (1)325 (1)511 (1)610 (1)1699 (1)1930 (1)Solitary or CommunalAllPerformed alone (1)Performed alone or together (9)TraditionAllArmenian Apostolic Church (1)Church of Cyprus (1)Church of Greece (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (1)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (1)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (1)Greek Orthodox Church (1)Old Believers (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (1)Romanian Orthodox Church (1)Russian Orthodox Church (1)Serbian Orthodox Church (1)Seventh-day Adventism (1)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1)Vaishnavism (1)Who Performs ItAllAll adherents of the tradition (6)Lay people (1)Monastics: monks and nuns (1)Trained or authorised specialists (2)Practice StatusAllHistorical; not practised continuously (1)Living tradition, practised today (9)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (10)CadenceAllContinuous: a standing discipline, not an event (6)Seasonal, at set points in the year (2)ObligationAllObligatory (5)Optional and voluntary (1)Recommended and meritorious, not required (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 10AyambilDietaryBiguDietaryBuddhist Temple VegetarianismDietaryHalalDietaryItalDietaryJain Dietary CodeDietaryOrthodox Christian FastingDietarySattvic DietDietarySikh Dietary CodeDietaryVegetarianismDietarySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religionstier 1John Bowker (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997View 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.