Home›Initiatory Practices›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups practices by the culture that gives them their inherited meaning. Wikipedia notes that Roman religious cultus was "an activity fundamental to Roman identity even when Rome as a political center had become fully urbanized." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every practice belonging to one culture together, rather than finding them scattered by category.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedPreparations and disciplines undertaken to enter, or in the course of entering, a status a tradition confers by transmission - preliminary practices before tantric instruction, formal ordination, the seeking of a vision under a people's own law. The atlas records that they exist and on whose authority; it does not set out what is transmitted, which in several of these traditions is closed. 2Contested UseContested or Appropriated Modern UseWell-attestedSourced to the subject's own accountSeveral practices grouped here are closed by the traditions that hold them and have been widely imitated by people without standing. The Lakota Summit V declaration of June 1993 objected by name to the conduct of the vision quest by outsiders. A published ethnographic account is a description, not a licence. 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedPractices 1StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2Learn MoreThe initiatory practices This group gathers initiatory practices, the rites and disciplines by which a person is admitted into a tradition, order or stage of spiritual life, marking a passage from outsider to insider or from one level of attainment to the next. 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The entries describe each practice's form and meaning, noting the tradition and the transition it marks.TraditionFilter Results4 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll400,910 (1)260,000,000 (1)1,406,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll400,910 (1)220,000,000 (1)1,406,000,000 (1)Bankruptcy FilingsAll28 (1)Basis of the Education Facility CountAllThe Body's Own Published Statistics (1)Basis of the Health Facility CountAllThe Body's Own Published Statistics (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (3)National Census (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (3)Basis of the Wealth FigureAllAudited Annual Report (1)Church FamilyAllAnabaptist (1)Eastern Orthodox (1)Roman Catholic (1)Date of Separation End YearAll1204 (2)1712 (1)Date of Separation Start YearAll1054 (2)1693 (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllAffirms the Filioque: the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (1)Awakening by tantric means (Vajrayana) (1)Chalcedonian: two natures in the one person of Christ (Chalcedon, 451) (2)Rejects the Filioque: the Spirit proceeds from the Father (1)Trinitarian: one God in three persons (3)Documented Accused CountAll5 (1)19 (1)21 (1)237 (1)800 (1)1670 (1)1880 (1)2900 (1)4392 (1)Education Facility Count As OfAll2023-12-31 (1)GovernanceAllAuthority in recognised reincarnate lineages (1)Congregational: each congregation self-governing (1)Episcopal: governed by bishops (2)No central authority (1)Self-governing churches under patriarchs, deciding in synod (1)Universal primacy of a single bishop (1)Health Facility Count As OfAll2023-12-31 (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (2)Obligation to Support, No Set Rate (1)Liturgical LanguageAllChurch Slavonic (1)Classical Tibetan (1)Early Modern German (the Luther Bible) (1)Greek (liturgical) (1)Latin (1)The vernacular (3)Membership Figure As OfAll1910-01-01 (1)1992-01-01 (1)2007-01-01 (1)2010-01-01 (2)2013-01-01 (1)2014-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (1)2022-01-01 (1)2024-01-01 (2)2025-01-01 (1)OrdinationAllAn unpaid lay ministry rather than a professional clergy (1)Celibacy required of the ordained (2)Married clergy permitted (2)Ordination is into a monastic order, not to a congregation (1)Restricted to men (3)Origin Period End YearAll779 (1)1100 (1)1204 (1)1712 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll30 (2)755 (1)1693 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage is held to be a lifelong, monogamous, indissoluble union; remarriage after divorce is not sanctioned while a spouse lives (1)Marriage is held to be monogamous, with remarriage after divorce sanctioned under specified conditions (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)Same-sex sexual relationships are held contrary to teaching; LGBT individuals are welcomed as members but not ordained, and same-sex unions are not blessed (2)Position on UsuryAllInterest is permitted but bound by ethical constraints against exploiting the poor (1)Relation to the StateAllNo Establishment (1)Varies by Province (2)Settlement TotalAll500,000 (1)1,500,000,000 (1)5,590,000,000 (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (4)Wealth Figure As Of YearAll2024 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAmishTradition1 entryEastern OrthodoxyTradition1 entryRoman CatholicismTradition2 entriesTibetan BuddhismTradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensionstier 1Catherine Bell, Oxford University Press, 1997Basic Genres of Ritual ActionView the Source3. Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spiritualitytier 1Lakota Summit V, 1993the holders' own accountDivinity 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.