Home›Freethought, Secularism & Religious Debate›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups historical figures by the religious tradition they belonged to or helped shape, connecting a person to the belief system that claims them. Wikipedia describes a tradition as "a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past." Browsing this way lets a visitor read every founder, reformer or teacher from one tradition together, rather than finding them scattered by century.FactsTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHistorical Figures 1TraditionFilter Results5 entriesEraAll1737 to 1809 (1)1825 to 1895 (1)1833 to 1891 (1)1833 to 1899 (1)1851 to 1933 (1)1857 to 1938 (1)1860 to 1925 (1)1872 to 1970 (1)Place of ActivityAllEngland (1)France (1)London (1)Nebraska (1)New York (1)Oxford (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (1)GenderAllMale (5)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (5)Veneration StatusAllHistorically Significant but Not Venerated (4)Officially Recognized or Venerated (1)Manner Of DeathAllDied of natural causes (3)NationalityAllGermany (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (3)Revered InAllChristianity (1)Adherents Today MaximumAll2,300,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll2,300,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (2)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Establishment StatusAllVaries by Province (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Membership Figure As OfAll1990-01-01 (1)2001-01-01 (1)2010-01-01 (1)2011-12-19 (1)2020-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll50 (1)1800 (2)1869 (1)1933 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll500 BCE (1)30 (1)1620 (1)1869 (1)1933 (1)Position on SexualityAllThe body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (4)TheologyAllAgnostic: the question held unresolved (1)Atheistic: no god (1)Deistic: a creator who does not intervene (1)Monotheistic: one God (1)Non-theistic: no creator god is central (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAgnosticismTradition4 entriesAtheismTradition2 entriesChristianityTradition1 entryDeismTradition1 entrySecular HumanismTradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Category: Historical FiguresDivinity 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.