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Ethical Practices

The ongoing enactment of a moral precept, a habit of conduct rather than a single act of charity or a formal vow, distinguished from the moral precepts filed under the belief type, which record the rule rather than the practice of keeping it.

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What Defines This Grouping
Standing commitments a tradition treats as conduct rather than as rite - non-injury, refusal of a medical procedure on doctrinal grounds, the provision of ceremony and pastoral care without religious content. The grouping is defined by the absence of a ritual form rather than by a shared ethic, and its members do not agree with one another. 2
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The Ethical Practices

This group holds ethical practices, the disciplines of right conduct and moral cultivation by which the traditions train character and shape behaviour toward others: the keeping of precepts, the practice of virtue, and the examination of conscience.

The browser will find ethical practices from various traditions. The entries describe each practice's form and the moral vision it serves, noting the tradition to which it belongs.

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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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