This page groups practices by who actually carries them out. Wikipedia notes that in the Catholic Church, cultus "is the technical term for Roman Catholic devotions or veneration extended to a particular saint," a practice of ordinary believers rather than clergy alone. Browsing this way lets a visitor separate a practice open to any adherent from one reserved for a specialist.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingStanding commitments a tradition treats as conduct rather than as rite - non-injury, refusal of a medical procedure on doctrinal grounds, the provision of ceremony and pastoral care without religious content. The grouping is defined by the absence of a ritual form rather than by a shared ethic, and its members do not agree with one another. 2 Learn More
The Ethical Practices
This group holds ethical practices, the disciplines of right conduct and moral cultivation by which the traditions train character and shape behaviour toward others: the keeping of precepts, the practice of virtue, and the examination of conscience.
The browser will find ethical practices from various traditions. The entries describe each practice's form and the moral vision it serves, noting the tradition to which it belongs.
Clergy or ordained officiants
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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