This page groups denominations by the language their services are conducted in. Wikipedia notes that in the Eastern Orthodox Church, its Rite of Tonsure "is printed in the Euchologion (Church Slavonic: Trebnik), the same book as the other Sacred Mysteries and services." Browsing by liturgical language lets a visitor find every denomination that worships in the same tongue.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingThe traditions of Wicca, differing over initiation and lineage, over degrees of structure, over coven practice against solitary practice, and over the balance struck between the God and the Goddess. The initiatory lineages descend by traceable initiation; the eclectic and solitary forms do not, and the distinction is the movement's own. 2 Attestation
Era of AttestationFirst attested in the 1950s: no Wiccan tradition is documented before the publication of Witchcraft Today in 1954, and every lineage grouped here descends from that beginning or reacts to it. 2 Learn More
The traditions of Wicca
This group gathers the traditions of Wicca, a modern Pagan witchcraft religion that emerged in mid-twentieth-century England, chiefly through the writings of Gerald Gardner, and has since diversified widely. Wicca is a new religious movement; the atlas presents it as such, distinct from the historical folk practices it draws imagery from.
The browser will find the initiatory lineages such as Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca alongside the many eclectic and solitary forms that developed later, especially in North America. The entries describe each tradition's structure, practice and relation to the founding lineages.
Liturgical Language
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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