This page groups beliefs by their standing within a body of teaching. Wikipedia notes that "beliefs are the subject of various important philosophical debates," including how "fine-grained or coarse-grained" a given belief actually is. Browsing by status-within-the-tradition lets a visitor tell a settled belief from a contested one.
Facts
Overview
What Defines This GroupingActs a tradition forbids, stated as it states them - intoxicants, usury, meat killed by another rite, tobacco. A prohibition is recorded here where the tradition frames it as a rule binding on members, as distinct from a taboo, which is framed as danger inhering in the thing itself. 2 Learn More
The prohibitions
This group gathers prohibitions, the acts a tradition forbids, the "thou shalt nots" by which it marks the boundaries of right conduct and ritual purity. Prohibitions define a community as much by what it refuses as by what it affirms.
The browser will find the prohibitions the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, noting the tradition that upholds it and the reason given for the prohibition.
Status Within the Tradition
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Taboo
Franz Steiner; edited by Laura Bohannan, preface by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Cohen and West, 1956
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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