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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?)
• 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.
• Key concepts;
• Practices, challenges, and managing them;
• Ethics;
• Fundamental Ontology (ies)
• 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).
• Preferred linguistics woven through the document
• 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, Mind, and Being in General
         • 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
    2. Real beings? Categories of beings? Order of beings?
       • Deity/Deities
         • 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.
    3. 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
• DSM 5 categories for religious exemption (structure questions around the categories e.g. hallucination, pscyhosis, etc. What would you say applies to this exemption according to your tradition?)

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1. Christianity  
   1. Catholicism
      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 Orthodox Church
      2. Western Orthodox Church
   4. Evangelical Christianity
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
3. Hinduism  
   1. Advaita Vedānta
   2. Yogic Schools
      1. Kundalini Yoga
   3. Shaivism
   4. Vaishnavism
   5. Shaktism
   6. Smartism
4. 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. Tibetan Buddhism
      2. Contemporary Western Buddhism
      3. ?
5. Folk Traditions  
   1. African traditional religions
   2. Native American religions
   3. Chinese folk religions
   4. Australian Aboriginal religions
6. Other Traditions  
   1. Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophical Schools
   2. Ancient Egypt
   3. Confucianism
   4. Gnosticism
   5. Hermetism
   6. Jainism
   7. Judaism
   8. Kabbalah
   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. Kimbanguism
       7. Neopaganism
       8. New Age spirituality
       9. Raëlism
       10. Rastafarianism
       11. Santeria
       12. Scientology
       13. Tenrikyo
       14. Wicca
       15. OTO
       16. Thelema
       17. IOT/Chaos
   15. Orphism
   16. Other
   17. Perennialism
   18. Shinto
   19. Shamanism
   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