Home›Dietary Restrictions›Subject›Food and purityBrowse ByFood and purityThis page groups beliefs by what they are actually about. Wikipedia notes that "to believe something is to take it to be true; for instance, to believe that snow is white is comparable to accepting the truth of the proposition 'snow is white.'" Browsing by subject lets a visitor find every belief built around the same underlying topic.FactsLearn MoreFood and puritySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRules a tradition states about what may be eaten and how it must be prepared. They rest on unrelated logics and are not one rule: kashrut and halal are laws of permitted species and slaughter; Jain and much Hindu abstention follows from ahimsa, non-injury, and reaches foods those laws never touch; the Latter-day Saint Word of Wisdom rests on a nineteenth-century revelation. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1Learn MoreThe dietary restrictions This group holds dietary restrictions, the beliefs that govern permitted and forbidden food and drink, from the kosher and halal laws of Judaism and Islam to the vegetarianism of several Indian traditions. Food rules are a visible and daily marker of religious identity and obedience. The browser will find the dietary restrictions the atlas gathers. The entries describe each rule and its rationale, noting the tradition that observes it.Food and purityFilter Results8 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllAffirmed, but left to individual conscience (3)Binding, without a formal definition (7)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (1)Origin Period Start YearAll610 (1)Affirmation OfAllAhimsa (1)Category of BeliefAllDietary Restrictions (3)TraditionAllAhmadiyya (2)Alawites (2)Alevism (2)Digambara (1)Ibadism (2)Ismailism (2)Kharijites (2)Quranism (2)Salafism (2)Shia (Twelver) (2)Sufism (2)Sunni (2)Svetambara (1)Wahhabism (2)Zaidiyyah (2)ObligationAllObligatory (6)Obligatory on those who meet its conditions (1)Recommended and meritorious, not required (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 8Do not mix meat and dairyFood and purityMeat must be slaughtered halalFood and purityMeat must be slaughtered kosher (shechita)Food and purityPork is forbidden (haram)Food and purityPork is not kosherFood and purityShellfish are forbiddenFood and purityStrict vegetarianism, no root vegetablesFood and purityVegetarianism is preferredFood and puritySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religionstier 1John Bowker (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997View the Source3. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View 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.