Home›Theological and Legal Treatise›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups literary works by the religion that treats them as authoritative. Wikipedia notes that "within each religion, these texts are revered as authoritative sources of guidance, wisdom, and divine revelation." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every work revered by the same religion together.FactsTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedLiterary Works 1TraditionFilter Results14 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll1,500,000 (1)2,000,000 (1)2,250,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll1,500,000 (1)1,700,000 (1)1,760,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (5)Independent Survey (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (5)Church FamilyAllMethodist (2)New Thought (1)Pentecostal (1)Restorationist (1)Date of SeparationAll2022 (1)Date of Separation End YearAll740 (1)750 (1)822 (1)900 (1)1925 (1)Date of Separation Start YearAll657 (1)740 (1)760 (1)805 (1)1700 (1)1796 (1)1906 (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllA celibate renunciant discipline outside the Khalsa rahit (1)All the teachings ranked in a graded classification (panjiao) (2)An impersonal universal Mind or Principle reached through directed thought, not petition (1)Awakening is the ground already present, not an outcome (1)Awakening through esoteric ritual transmission (mikkyo) (1)Buddhahood realised in this very body and lifetime (1)Emptiness, provisional existence and the middle held as one (2)Leadership by the community's election of the most qualified, without descent (1)Neidan: the refinement of body and spirit as the path (1)Non-trinitarian: the Nicene doctrine of the Trinity is not held (1)One vehicle: every teaching leads to a single buddhahood (2)Religious claims assessed, and rejected, on evidential grounds (1)Restorationist: holds the apostolic church to have been lost and restored (1)Sikh scripture read through Sanskrit and Vedantic learning (1)Text and the reports of the earliest community above juristic reasoning (1)The imamate open to any qualified descendant of Ali who rises and claims it (1)The Qur'an is God's created speech (2)The Qur'an is God's uncreated speech (1)The written Torah alone; the rabbinic Oral Torah not accepted (1)Trinitarian: one God in three persons (1)Trinitarian: one God in three persons (1)GovernanceAllA head temple over affiliated branch temples (1)An imam or caliph elected by the community or its electors (1)Authority in trained scholars, with no central office (3)Authority through monastic ordination lineage and its seats (3)Congregational: each congregation self-governing (3)Connexional: congregations bound in a conference with itinerant ministry (2)No central authority (3)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (2)Liturgical LanguageAllClassical Arabic (3)Classical Chinese (read in Sino-Japanese where used in Japan) (3)Hebrew (1)Punjabi in Gurmukhi script (1)Sanskrit (1)The vernacular (5)Membership Figure As OfAll1868-01-01 (1)1935-01-01 (1)1953-01-01 (1)1990-01-01 (1)2007-01-01 (1)2013-01-01 (1)2016-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (1)2021-01-01 (1)2022-01-01 (1)2023-01-01 (1)2023-07-01 (1)2023-08-08 (1)2024-03-18 (1)2025-01-01 (1)2026-02-01 (1)OrdinationAllCelibacy required of the ordained (2)Married clergy permitted (1)No ordination; authority rests on learning or on the whole body (5)Open to women and men (3)Ordination is into a monastic order, not to a congregation (4)Restricted to men (3)Origin Period End YearAll597 (1)750 (1)806 (1)897 (1)900 (1)1700 (1)1744 (1)1821 (1)1906 (1)1916 (1)2007 (1)2022 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll538 (1)680 (1)740 (1)760 (1)805 (1)1200 (1)1686 (1)1744 (1)1796 (1)1801 (1)1880 (1)1913 (1)2004 (1)2022 (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (2)Same-sex sexual relationships are held contrary to teaching; LGBT individuals are welcomed as members but not ordained, and same-sex unions are not blessed (2)Relation to the StateAllDisestablished (1)Established (1)No Establishment (3)Status TodayAllIn active religious use (1)Living tradition, practised today (14)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAfrican Methodist Episcopal Zion ChurchTradition1 entryChurches of ChristTradition1 entryDivine ScienceTradition1 entryDragon GateTradition1 entryGlobal Methodist ChurchTradition1 entryIbadismTradition1 entryKaraite JudaismTradition1 entryNew AtheismTradition1 entryNirmalaTradition1 entryOneness PentecostalismTradition1 entryTendaiTradition1 entryTiantaiTradition1 entryWahhabismTradition1 entryZaidiyyahTradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeComments (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.