Home›Feasts›Status Today›Living tradition, practised todayBrowse ByLiving tradition, practised todayThis page groups holidays by whether they are still kept today. Wikipedia notes that "the science of religious rites and festivals is known as heortology," a field that studies festivals whether or not they are still actively observed. Browsing by status today lets a visitor separate a holiday still widely kept from one now studied only historically.FactsLearn MoreLiving tradition, practised todaySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedDays a tradition appoints for celebration, usually commemorating a person or an event and marked by a service and by eating rather than abstaining. The word is a Latin Christian liturgical term for a day of appointed rank in the calendar; extending it to the Islamic eid and to Baha'i holy days is a convenience of this classification, not a term those traditions use. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHolidays & Festivals 1Learn MoreThe feasts This group gathers feasts, the festal days of the religious calendar centred on celebration and, often, shared eating, commemorating a saint, an event of sacred history or a season of the year. In the Christian calendar especially, the feast is a central form of observance. The browser will find the feasts the atlas gathers. The entries describe each feast's occasion, customs and meaning, noting the tradition and the date on which it falls.Living tradition, practised todayFilter Results22 entriesTraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (3)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (3)Amish (3)Anabaptism (3)Anglican Communion (6)Anglicanism (6)Armenian Apostolic Church (5)Assyrian Church of the East (3)Baptist (1)Calvinism (Reformed) (3)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (3)Church of Cyprus (8)Church of England (8)Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (1)Church of Greece (8)Church of Ireland (6)Church of Scotland (2)Church of Sweden (7)Church of the Nazarene (2)Coptic Orthodoxy (4)Disciples of Christ (2)Dutch Reformed Church (3)Eastern Orthodoxy (8)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (8)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (4)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (4)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (8)Evangelicalism (1)Free Methodist Church (2)Georgian Orthodox Church (8)Global Methodist Church (4)Greek Orthodox Church (8)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Lutheranism (8)Maronite Church (5)Mennonites (3)Methodism (4)Moravian Church (3)National Baptist Convention of America (1)Old Believers (8)Oriental Orthodoxy (5)Pentecostalism (2)Presbyterianism (2)Progressive National Baptist Convention (1)Protestantism (2)Roman Catholicism (14)Romanian Orthodox Church (8)Russian Orthodox Church (8)Serbian Orthodox Church (9)The Episcopal Church (6)The United Methodist Church (4)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (8)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (8)Wesleyan Church (2)Calendar SystemAllBadi (Bahai) (2)Gregorian (civil solar) (14)Islamic Hijri (lunar) (2)Julian (Old Calendar) (5)Date TypeAllComputed from another feast (6)Fixed date in its own calendar (15)Set by an astronomical event or computus (1)Observance TypeAllAlmsgiving / offering (2)Commemoration of a person or event (4)Fast / abstinence (1)Feast / celebration (19)Memorial of the dead (1)Nativity / birth remembered (3)Pilgrimage (1)Procession (1)Purification (1)Veneration of a deity or holy figure (4)MonthAllAugust (2)December (1)February (1)January (2)November (1)September (3)Origin EraAll100 (1)200 (1)335 (1)336 (1)350 (1)380 (1)384 (1)450 (3)500 (1)624 (2)700 (1)998 (1)1000 (1)1817 (1)2000 (1)Place of OriginAllEthiopia (1)Iran (1)Italy (1)Poland (1)UNESCO StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 22All Souls' DayLiving tradition, practised todayAscension DayLiving tradition, practised todayBirth of Baha'u'llahLiving tradition, practised todayCandlemasLiving tradition, practised todayChristmasLiving tradition, practised todayDivine Mercy SundayLiving tradition, practised todayDormition of the TheotokosLiving tradition, practised todayEid al-AdhaLiving tradition, practised todayEid al-FitrLiving tradition, practised todayEpiphanyLiving tradition, practised todayExaltation of the Holy CrossLiving tradition, practised todayFeast of the AssumptionLiving tradition, practised todayFeast of the Immaculate ConceptionLiving tradition, practised todayLazarus SaturdayLiving tradition, practised todayMaundy ThursdayLiving tradition, practised todayMichaelmasLiving tradition, practised todayNativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryLiving tradition, practised todayNineteen Day FeastLiving tradition, practised todayPentecostLiving tradition, practised todaySlavaLiving tradition, practised todayTimkatLiving tradition, practised todayTrinity SundayLiving tradition, practised todaySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editiontier 1F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 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.