Home›Rulers, Emperors & Monarchs›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.FactsTraditionConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHistorical Figures 1TraditionFilter Results14 entriesEraAll-100 to -44 (1)-1323 to -1279 (1)-1341 to -1323 (1)-1353 to -1336 (1)-1810 to -1750 (1)-215 to -164 (1)-304 to -232 (1)-3125 to -3075 (1)-448 to -365 (1)-63 to 14 (1)-634 to -562 (1)-711 to -585 (1)1050 to 1124 (1)1054 to 1111 (1)1060 to 1100 (1)1090 to 1150 (1)1456 to 1542 (1)1470 to 1520 (1)1491 to 1547 (1)1533 to 1603 (1)1542 to 1587 (1)1542 to 1605 (1)1569 to 1627 (1)1583 to 1631 (1)1618 to 1707 (1)1630 to 1685 (1)180 to 242 (1)1907 to 1978 (1)244 to 311 (1)272 to 337 (1)347 to 395 (1)37 to 68 (1)482 to 565 (1)554 to 628 (1)603 to 683 (1)605 to 650 (1)624 to 705 (1)647 to 742 (1)683 to 734 (1)748 to 814 (1)849 to 899 (1)958 to 1015 (1)birth_date = {{circa|AD 450}} (Wikipedia infobox, uncited) (1)Place of ActivityAllAfghanistan (1)Angkor (1)Antioch (1)Athens (1)Babylon (1)China (1)Croatia (1)Egypt (2)England (1)France (1)Germany (1)Greece (1)Gujarat (1)India (1)Italy (2)Japan (2)Jerusalem (1)Laos (1)Mexico (1)Mongolia (1)Mughal Empire (2)Ottoman Empire (1)Rome (1)Scotland (1)Sukhothai Kingdom (1)Turkey (2)United Kingdom (1)GenderAllFemale (3)Male (14)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (14)Historicity debated (1)Legendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record (1)Veneration StatusAllFormally Canonized or Sainted (1)Historically Significant but Not Venerated (9)Officially Recognized or Venerated (6)Popularly or Locally Venerated (1)Manner Of DeathAllAssassinated (3)Died by suicide (1)Died of natural causes (6)Disputed (2)Executed (1)Killed in battle (1)NationalityAllAncient Egypt (1)Babylonia (1)Byzantine Empire (1)Egypt (1)Himyarite Kingdom (1)India (1)Iran (1)Japan (2)Kingdom of Jerusalem (1)Kingdom of Kongo (1)Kingdom of Scotland (1)Laos (1)Mughal Empire (2)Principality of Antioch (1)Roman Empire (2)Safavid Empire (1)Sasanian Empire (1)Seleucid Empire (1)Sukhothai Kingdom (1)The Khmer Empire (1)The Kingdom of England (1)The Tang Dynasty (1)Tibetan Empire (1)United Kingdom (2)Zhou dynasty (interregnum) (1)Revered InAllAncient Egyptian Religion (1)Buddhism (1)Christianity (1)Din-i-Ilahi (1)Hinduism (1)Islam (1)Judaism (1)Roman Religion (1)Shinto (1)Zoroastrianism (1)Adherents Today MaximumAll121,962 (1)14,800,000 (1)324,000,000 (1)1,200,000,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll111,691 (1)14,800,000 (1)324,000,000 (1)1,200,000,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (1)Independent Survey (5)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (5)Era of Decline End YearAll100 (1)400 (1)550 (1)1600 (1)Era of Decline Start YearAll100 BCE (1)380 (2)600 (1)651 (1)Era of Modern Revival End YearAll2000 (1)Era of Modern Revival Start YearAll1990 (1)Establishment StatusAllDeclared Not Established (1)Disestablished (3)Varies by Province (4)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Customary Norm (4)Membership Figure As OfAll2004-01-01 (1)2010-01-01 (4)2011-01-27 (1)2011-12-19 (1)2012-01-01 (1)2012-12-18 (2)2013-01-01 (1)2016-12-31 (1)2020-01-01 (5)Origin Period End YearAll3000 BCE (2)1000 BCE (1)600 BCE (1)500 BCE (2)400 BCE (2)50 (1)277 (1)632 (1)712 (1)800 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll3500 BCE (1)3300 BCE (1)2000 BCE (1)1500 BCE (2)750 BCE (1)586 BCE (1)500 BCE (1)300 BCE (1)30 (1)240 (1)610 (1)700 (1)1582 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage may licitly be polygynous (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)The body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (2)Position on UsuryAllInterest is permitted but bound by ethical constraints against exploiting the poor (1)Interest of any kind on a loan is forbidden (1)Practice StatusAllDiscontinued as a state religion (4)Living, and practised in varied local forms (4)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (5)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTen percent. (1)Two and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllHistorical; not practised continuously (5)Living tradition, practised today (9)Revived or reconstructed in the modern era (1)TheologyAllAnimist: persons and powers in land, water and living things (2)Dualist: two opposed cosmic principles (2)Henotheistic: a supreme being above served lesser divinities (1)Monistic: one ultimate reality behind all appearance (1)Monotheistic: one God (5)Non-theistic: no creator god is central (1)Panentheistic: the divine both within the world and beyond it (1)Polytheistic: many gods (6)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAncient Egyptian ReligionTradition4 entriesBuddhismTradition6 entriesChristianityTradition15 entriesDin-i-IlahiTradition1 entryHinduismTradition1 entryIslamTradition4 entriesJudaismTradition2 entriesManichaeismTradition1 entryMaya ReligionTradition3 entriesMesopotamian ReligionTradition2 entriesRoman ReligionTradition5 entriesShintoTradition2 entriesTengrismTradition1 entryZoroastrianismTradition1 entryConnectionsAssociated WithAfrica, Continents Well-attested This source names Africa directly: "khagans and dynastic founders of Africa, the Americas and Asia whose reigns intersected the traditions this atlas covers."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Americas, Continents Well-attested This source names Americas directly: "and dynastic founders of Africa, the Americas and Asia whose reigns intersected the traditions this atlas covers."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Asia, Continents Well-attested This source names Asia directly: "founders of Africa, the Americas and Asia whose reigns intersected the traditions this atlas covers."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Mesopotamians, Cultures Well-attested This source names Mesopotamians directly: "Rulers, emperors and monarchs held political sovereignty, whatever their religious significance beyond it: the Roman emperors under whom Christianity moved from persecuted sect to state church, the..."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Sources1. 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