Scripture and Founding Text

Gathers the sacred scriptures, revealed or channeled texts, prayer books and founding statements that a religion, denomination or movement holds as its own authoritative source: a canonical scripture or its translation, a movement's founding manifesto or declaration, or the text its own tradition treats as scripture-equivalent in authority. A member belongs here for its own tradition's treatment of it as an authoritative source text defining belief or practice, distinct from the theological and legal treatises gathered separately that interpret or argue from such a source rather than constitute it.