Home›Dietary Practices›Practice Status›Living tradition, practised todayBrowse ByLiving tradition, practised todayThis page groups practices by whether they are still carried out today. Wikipedia notes that "in French, for example, sections in newspapers giving the schedule of worship for Catholic services are headed Culte Catholique," ordinary evidence of a still-living practice. Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a living practice apart from one preserved only in historical description.FactsLearn MoreLiving tradition, practised todaySourcesComments (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.Living tradition, practised todayFilter Results13 entriesOrigin Period Start YearAll-1000 (1)-600 (1)325 (1)511 (1)610 (1)1699 (1)1833 (1)1930 (1)Solitary or CommunalAllPerformed alone or together (12)TraditionAllArmenian Apostolic Church (1)Beta Israel (1)Breslov Hasidism (1)Chabad-Lubavitch (1)Church of Cyprus (1)Church of Greece (1)Conservative Judaism (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)Haredi Judaism (1)Hasidic Judaism (1)Karaite Judaism (1)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Modern Orthodox Judaism (1)Old Believers (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (1)Orthodox Judaism (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)Category of PracticeAllDietary (9)Purificatory (1)Who Performs ItAllAll adherents of the tradition (9)Clergy or ordained officiants (1)Lay people (1)Monastics: monks and nuns (1)Trained or authorised specialists (1)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (13)CadenceAllAs the occasion requires (1)Continuous: a standing discipline, not an event (8)Seasonal, at set points in the year (2)ObligationAllObligatory (8)Recommended and meritorious, not required (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 13AyambilLiving tradition, practised todayBuddhist Temple VegetarianismLiving tradition, practised todayHalalLiving tradition, practised todayIslamic views on fasting in the polar regionsLiving tradition, practised todayItalLiving tradition, practised todayJain Dietary CodeLiving tradition, practised todayKeeping KosherLiving tradition, practised todayOrthodox Christian FastingLiving tradition, practised todaySaikaiLiving tradition, practised todaySattvic DietLiving tradition, practised todaySikh Dietary CodeLiving tradition, practised todayThe Word of WisdomLiving tradition, practised todayVegetarianismLiving tradition, practised todaySources1. 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.