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This page groups doctrines by the kind of teaching they actually are. Wikipedia notes that "doctrine ... is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system." Browsing by doctrinal-category lets a visitor compare doctrines that share the same basic kind of teaching.

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Five Doctrines That Do Not Fit Elsewhere

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Other Doctrines gathers five concepts that do not belong under any of the atlas's other named doctrine groupings, related to one another only by not fitting elsewhere.

Household religion, also called domestic religion or domestic cult, names worship practiced inside the home rather than at a temple, church or communal shrine, addressed to the deities, spirits and ancestors a family holds as its own, a pattern found across traditions that also maintain public worship elsewhere. The Law of Attraction states the claim, popular well beyond any single religious body, that a person's thoughts and feelings exert a causal pull on real world outcomes, so that sustained focus on a desired result makes it more likely. Reconstructionism as method names the discipline several modern traditions use to rebuild ritual and practice from a documented historical record rather than inventing new liturgy from personal inspiration, treating the surviving evidence as the standard a reconstruction answers to. The Law of Fives is Discordianism's own formulation that all things happen in fives or relate to the number five, offered by its own text with a wink toward how readily confirmation can be found for it.

Two-Spirit closes the group as a term of relatively recent origin, adopted in 1990 at a Native American and First Nations gathering from an Anishinaabemowin phrase, to name a role recognized across many Indigenous North American traditions and to replace an older, less accurate outside term. What unifies the five is only their residue status, not a shared claim, a shared origin or a shared tradition.

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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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