Governance Practices

Religiously grounded methods of collective decision-making and self-governance: the Gada System of age-graded Oromo democracy, the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace (Kaianere'ko:wa) underlying the Iroquois Confederacy, and the Quaker sense of the meeting, reaching decisions by discerned unity rather than a vote. Belongs here: a practice whose primary content is how a community decides or governs itself, framed as religious or spiritual discipline. Does not belong here: a practice of individual devotion, ethics or purification, grouped under devotional, ethical or purificatory practices instead.