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EA:  RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION

Status: STD 2005/06/07
Code: 1097

Concept definition: A designation denoting a religion or system of belief; religious designation.
 
Attribute value type: ENUMERATION
Reference type: IR
Reference: [WCE]
Supplemental references:  

Enumerants (presented in a natural order)
Status Attribute label Enumerant label ▾ Concept definition Code Ref type Reference Supplemental references
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION AGNOSTICISM Agnosticism. 1  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION ATHEISM Atheism. 2  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION BAHAISM Baha'ism. 3  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION BUDDHISM Buddhism. 4  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION CAODAISM Caodaism. 5  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION CHINESE_TRADITIONAL Traditional Chinese religion, including local deities, Taoism, ancestor veneration, Confucian ethics, Chinese universism, divination and magic. 6 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION CHRISTIANITY Christianity. 7  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION HINDUISM Hinduism. 8  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION ISLAM Islam. 9  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION JAINISM Jainism. 10  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION JUDAISM Judaism. 11  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION NEO_PAGANISM Modern revival of ancient ethnic and magical traditions, usually polytheistic, including Wicca, Magic, and Druidism; neo-paganism. 12 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION NEW_RELIGIONS Modern Far Eastern or Asiatic indigenous non-Christian syncretistic mass religions, founded since 1800 and mostly since 1945, including the Japanese neo-Buddhist and neo-Shinto new religious movements, and Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indonesian syncretistic religions. 13 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION NON_BUDDHISM A religion other than <<<BUDDHISM>>>; non-Buddhism. 14 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION NON_CHRISTIANITY A religion other than <<<CHRISTIANITY>>>; non-Christianity. 15 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION NON_HINDUISM A religion other than <<<HINDUISM>>>; non-Hinduism. 16 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION NON_ISLAM A religion other than <<<ISLAM>>>; non-Islam. 17 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION NON_JUDAISM A religion other than <<<JUDAISM>>>; non-Judaism. 18 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION PRIMAL_INDIGENOUS Original or primitive religions in an area including animism, shamanism, spirit-worship, ancestor veneration, polytheism, and pantheism; usually exclusive to a particular tribe or people. 19 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION RASTAFARIANISM Rastafarianism. 20  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION SCIENTOLOGY Scientology. 21  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION SHINTO Shinto. 22  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION SIKHISM Sikhism. 23  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION SPIRITISM Belief in the action and agency of spirits of the dead, producing mediumistic phenomena; spiritism. 24 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION UNITARIAN_UNIVERSALISM A religion formed by the merger of the Unitarian and the Universalism religions. Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion based on Jewish and Christian traditions, but encompasses spirituality from all the major world religions, as well as primal-indigenous faiths. 25 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION YORUBA A religion based on the primal-indigenous religion of the former Yoruba state of Africa, practiced mostly in the Caribbean, South America and the United States by adherents who are integrated into a technological, industrial society. Yoruba includes Santeria and Voodoo. 26 IR [WCE]  
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RELIGIOUS_DESIGNATION ZOROASTRIANISM Zoroastrianism. 27  

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