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• Basic demographics; (numbers of people in tradition) - don't highlight this (infobox) > [Is this really needed or do we link to wikipedia which has all this info and more?]
• [The following is the core element of the traditional template] Views on emergence in general, typologies of EPEEs, normal VS abnormal, and developmental models; i.e. what is ok and what is not, how do you deal with them when they arise > Structure this according to the DSM stuff! DSM 5 categories for religious exemption (structure questions around the categories e.g. hallucination, psychosis, etc. What would you say applies to this exemption according to your tradition?) (Olivier to expand this out with categories)
• Beliefs and views (what are you?) nature of experience, consciousness, humans
  • Beliefs, Views, Metaphysics — e.g. reality, substance, causality, properties, relations, categories of beings, universals, particulars, space, time, freedom, …, these are some of the topic of metaphysics (Sjösdedt-Hughes, 2023).
    1. Ontology
       • Nature of Reality
         • Substantialist views
           • Monisms
             • Idealist Monisms — Solipsism, Immaterialism, etc.
             • Materialist Monisms — Physicalism, Eliminativism, Behaviorism, Emergentism, Epiphenomenalism, etc.
             • Other Monisms — Neutral monism, Panpsychism, Biopsychism, Theistic Monism (Islam), etc.
           • Dualisms — Mind-body Dualism, Interactionism
           • Pluralisms — Platonic Theory of Ideas, Animism, Infinite Aspects Monism (Spinoza), Triune God (arguably, Catholicism, though usually thought of as a monotheism with three hyposthases)
         • Non-substantialist Metaphysics
           • Phenomenological Ontologies — Michel Henry’s non-intentional phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty’s Endo-ontology
           • Functionalism (Bitbol, 2010) (Ernst Cassirer: Subject/Object, the cognitive relation, has no ontological grounding, only a functional one)
           • Non-foundationalist non-substantialism — Thinkers and traditions that hold there is no intrinsic ultimate substance nor a specific ultimate origin or foundation to phenomena, and that such concepts are in fact mistaken. Meister Eckhart seemed close to this, Parmenides as well, Buddhist philosophy of dependent origination (inter-being) and Emptiness (e.g. Madhyamika philosophy), perhaps Nietzsche, William James, Rob Burbea, etc.
         • Agnosticism
       • Real beings? Categories of beings? Order of beings?
         • Deity/Deities, pantheon
           • Monotheism, Polytheism, Pantheism, Deism, Panentheism, Atheism, etc.
           • Creator God ?
         • Hierarchy of beings, ex : Quantum Bayesianism; String Theory; Periodic Table of the Elements; Celestial hierarchies (Pseudo-Dionysius) ; Greek Pantheon (Dodecatheism) ; The Great Chain of Being; etc.
         • True Nature of Ultimate Being - ex : Brahman; Śūnyatā
         • True Nature of Beings - ex : Transcendent Realism (e.g. Angels really exist somewhere);  Immortal Soul; Atman; Non-essentialism (Śūnyatā); Atomism
         • True Nature of phenomenal existence and individual subjectivity - ex : Maya, illusory; The thing in itself (Kant); Phenomenalism: phenomena (including perhaps angels) do appear but do not have “real”, inherent reality, being, or substance “behind” or “underneath” phenomena.
    2. Cosmology
       • Origins and Ends
         • of the Cosmos — e.g. Creation in 7 days; Causation without foundation (Bitbol, 2014) ; Dependent Origination: no foundation but radical interdependence); Continual creation (Bergson); Big Bang
         • of Beings
       • Laws ruling the Cosmos — ex : God’s Will; Karma
         • Man's place in the Cosmos;
         • Status and Nature of individual agency - ex : Free Will
• Epistemics (where does the knowledge come from? divine revelation/textual/etc.)
  1. Epistemology —Whence does valid knowledge/perception/cognition arise ?
     • Sources of knowledge — e.g. Perception (Direct perception: Phenomenology, Pramana), Reflection/Reasoning, Faith, Reliable testimony, Revelation, Intuition, Authority — Scriptures, Religious Figures…, Experimental reproducibility/falsifiability…
     • Logic — E.g. Inference, Comparison and analogy, Self-evidence/Apodicticity, Postulation, derivation - Induction, Truth and Justification, Valid Cognition
     • Theory of mind, knower/known
• Soteriological doctrine what saves you and what are you being saved from
  • Soteriology - This is related to but not the same as Metaphysics. What is Salvation ? How is it attained ? What is it we need to be saved from? e.g.: Experiential knowledge (Buddhism), Knowledge (Gnosticism), Faith and Devotion (Catholicism), Different possibilities (Hinduism sees Jñana, Karma, Bhakti, as different but equally valid paths to salvation).
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  • Authority
    • Scriptural
    • Temporal - Organized Religion ? Clergy ? Hierarchies ?
  • Rituals and Practices (e.g. Rituals of Devotion, Dietary practices, Meditative practices);
  • Religious Institutions and Affiliation
  • Modes of Living, Codes and Precepts (ex : Priesthood, Monasticism, Laity)
  • Ethical principles;

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1. Abrahamic

1. 1. Christianity  
      1. Nicene Christianity
         1. Catholicism — Note by Daniel: Catholicism has as one of its features a remarkable capacity for local syncretism, very often adopting, enfolding, informing, etc. local religions, saints, spirits, traditions, rituals, particularly in Central and South America and Africa, but in other places also, giving many of these very different flavors and thus likely relationships to emergent phenomena, etc.
            1. Latin Church
               1. Jesuits
               2. Carmelites
               3. Franciscans
               4. Dominicans
               5. Cistercians
               6. Beguines and Beghards
            2. Eastern Catholic Church
      2. Protestantism
         1. Pentecostalism – 280 million
         2. Anglicanism – 110 million
         3. Baptist churches – 100 million
         4. Nondenominational Christianity – 80–100 million
         5. Lutheranism – 70–90 million
         6. Methodism – 60–80 million
         7. Reformed churches (Calvinism) – 60–80 million
         8. African initiated churches – 60 million
         9. Chinese Patriotic Christian Churches - 25 million
         10. Eastern Protestant Christianity – 22 million
         11. Adventism – 21.80 million
         12. New Apostolic Church – 10 million
         13. Restorationism – 7 million
         14. Anabaptism – 4 million
         15. Local churches – 1 to 10 million
         16. Plymouth Brethren – 1 million
         17. Hussites – 1 million
         18. Quakers – 0.4 million
         19. Messianic Judaism – 0.3 million
      3. Orthodox Christianity
         1. Eastern Orthodoxy
            1. Greek Orthodox Pratriarchates or Churches
               1. Constantinople
               2. Alexandria
               3. Antioch
               4. Jerusalem
               5. Russia
               6. Serbia
               7. Romania
               8. Bulgaria
               9. Georgia
               10. Cyprus
               11. Greece
               12. Poland
               13. Albania
               14. Czech Lands and Slovakia
               15. North Macedonia
         2. Oriental Orthodox Churches
            1. Coptic Orthodox
            2. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
            3. Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo
            4. Syriac Orthodox
            5. Armenian Apostolic
            6. Malankara Orthodox Syrian
            7. Western Orthodoxy
         3. Evangelical Christianity
         4. Restorationist
            1. Mormon/Latter-day Saint movement (17 million members)
            2. Jehovah's Witnesses (8.7 million members)
   2. Islam  
      1. Sunnīsm
         1. Ḥanafī Sunnīsm (45%)
         2. Shāfiʿī Sunnīsm (28%)
         3. Mālikī Sunnīsm (15%)
         4. Ḥanbalī Sunnīsm (2%)
      2. Shī‘ism
         1. Twelver Shīʿīsm (8.5%)
         2. Zaydī Shīʿīsm (0.5%)
         3. Ismāʿīlī Shīʿīsm (0.5%)
            1. Ghulat
      3. Kharījism
      4. Sufīsm
      5. Ahmadiyya movement
      6. Salafism
      7. Wahhabism
   3. Judaism
      1. Hassidism
      2. Kabbalah
      3. Ultraorthodox
2. Hinduism — Note by Daniel: Hinduism, as much as contemporary nationalist movements want to make it a coherent religion, is nothing of the kind, with probably more local gods, variants, diversity of view, etc. than any other tradition on this list.
   1. Advaita Vedānta
   2. Arya Samaj
   3. ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
   4. Sant Mat traditions
   5. Shaivism
   6. Shaktism
   7. Smartism
   8. Vaishnavism
   9. Yogic Schools
      1. Bhakti yoga
      2. Hatha yoga
      3. Jñana yoga
      4. Karma yoga
      5. Kundalini Yoga
      6. Raja yoga
3. Buddhism  
   1. Mahāyāna Buddhism
      1. Madhyamaka
      2. Yogacāra
      3. Pure Land
      4. Zen
         1. Soto
         2. Rinzai
         3. Ch’an
   2. Vajrayāna Buddhism
      1. Tantra
      2. Dzogchen
      3. Mahāmūdra
      4. Shingon: sort of Zen meets Vajrayana
   3. Theravāda Buddhism: this itself has huge internal diversity
   4. Regional traditions > not sure here?
      1. Contemporary Western Buddhism
      2. Japanese New Religious Movements (Soka Gakkai)
      3. Korean Buddhism
      4. Nichiren Buddhism
      5. Thai Forest Tradition
      6. Tibetan Buddhism
      7. Vietnamese Buddhism
4. Folk Traditions  
   1. African traditional religions
   2. African Diasporic religions (Vodou, Candomblé, Umbanda)
   3. Australian Aboriginal religions
   4. Baltic paganism
   5. Chinese folk religions
   6. Native American religions
   7. Nordic pre-Christian traditions
   8. Pacific Islander religions
   9. Slavic paganism
   10. Vietnamese folk religion (Đạo Mẫu)
5. Other Traditions  
   1. Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophical Schools
   2. Ancient Egypt
   3. Confucianism
   4. Druze faith
   5. Falun Gong
   6. Gnosticism
   7. Hermetism
   8. Jainism
   9. Magical or occult practices
   10. Mandaeism
   11. Manichaeism
   12. Martial Arts
   13. Neoplatonism
   14. New Religious Movements
       1. Ásatrú/Heathenry
       2. Baha'i Faith
       3. Cao Dai
       4. Discordianism
       5. Druidry
       6. IOT/Chaos
       7. Japanese new religious movements (Oomoto, Seicho-no-Ie)
       8. Kimbanguism
       9. Neopaganism
       10. Korean new religious movements (Cheondoism, Jeungsanism)
       11. New Age spirituality
       12. OTO
       13. Raëlism
       14. Rastafarianism
       15. Samaritanism
       16. Santeria
       17. Scientology
       18. Tenrikyo
       19. Thelema
       20. Vietnamese Hòa Hảo
       21. Wicca
   15. Orphism
   16. Other
   17. Perennialism
   18. Shinto
   19. Shamanism
       1. Siberian shamanic traditions
       2. Korean shamanism (Muism)
   20. Sikhism
   21. Spiritism
   22. Western Esotericism
       1. Alchemy
       2. Astrology
       3. Freemasonry
       4. Gnosticism
       5. Hermeticism
       6. Illuminism
       7. Kabbalah
       8. Neoplatonism
       9. Rosicrucianism
       10. Tenrikyo
       11. Theosophy
   23. Taoism
   24. Transcendental meditation
   25. Western Mindfulness Movement
   26. Yazidism
   27. Zoroastrianism