Home›South Asia›Principal Tradition OfBrowse ByPrincipal Tradition OfThis page groups sacred regions by their formal rank within one specific faith. Wikipedia notes that Jerusalem "is the holiest city in Judaism and Christianity and the third-holiest city in Islam (behind Mecca and Medina in the Arabian Peninsula)." Browsing by principal-tradition-of lets a visitor find every region holding the same rank within its faith.FactsPrincipal Tradition OfSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRegions 1Principal Tradition OfFilter Results8 entriesParent RegionAllIndian Subcontinent (5)Principal TraditionAllBon (3)Buddhism (6)Christianity (1)Hinduism (6)Islam (6)Jainism (6)Sikhism (5)Zoroastrianism (3)Sacred ToAllBuddhism (5)Hinduism (5)Islam (4)Jainism (5)Sikhism (5)Modern AreaAllBhutan (3)China (3)India (8)Nepal (3)Pakistan (5)Sacred LanguagesAllArabic (6)Assamese (2)Avestan (4)Bengali (1)Enga (1)Gujarati (3)Hebrew (2)Kannada (4)Kashmiri (2)Malay (2)Malayalam (2)Marathi (4)Nepali (3)Prakrit (6)Sanskrit (7)Syriac (2)Tamil (2)Telugu (4)Tibetan (3)Urdu (4)Adherents Today MaximumAll121,962 (1)5,000,000 (1)30,000,000 (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)4,000,000 (1)25,000,000 (1)324,000,000 (1)1,200,000,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (4)National Census (2)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (6)Era of Decline Start YearAll651 (1)Establishment StatusAllDisestablished (2)Varies by Province (4)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Customary Norm (3)Obligation to Support, No Set Rate (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2001-01-01 (1)2001-03-01 (1)2004-01-01 (1)2010-01-01 (4)2011-01-01 (1)2011-01-27 (1)2011-03-01 (1)2011-12-19 (1)2012-01-01 (1)2012-12-18 (2)2020-01-01 (4)2021-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll600 BCE (1)500 BCE (1)400 BCE (2)50 (1)632 (1)1100 (1)1708 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1500 BCE (2)600 BCE (1)500 BCE (1)30 (1)610 (1)1000 (1)1499 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage is held to be monogamous, with remarriage after divorce sanctioned under specified conditions (1)Marriage may licitly be polygynous (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (2)The body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (1)Position on UsuryAllInterest of any kind on a loan is forbidden (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (4)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (4)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTen percent. (1)Two and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (8)TheologyAllAnimist: persons and powers in land, water and living things (1)Dualist: two opposed cosmic principles (1)Monistic: one ultimate reality behind all appearance (1)Monotheistic: one God (4)Non-theistic: no creator god is central (2)Panentheistic: the divine both within the world and beyond it (1)Polytheistic: many gods (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareBonPrincipal Tradition Of1 entryBuddhismPrincipal Tradition Of8 entriesChristianityPrincipal Tradition Of1 entryHinduismPrincipal Tradition Of12 entriesIslamPrincipal Tradition Of10 entriesJainismPrincipal Tradition Of8 entriesSikhismPrincipal Tradition Of4 entriesZoroastrianismPrincipal Tradition Of1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeCategory: RegionsComments (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.