Syriaca.org Known Religious Communities

Syriaca.org Known Religious Communities Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation David A. Michelson Thomas A. Carlson David A. Michelson Nathan P. Gibson Thomas A. Carlson Taxonomy compiled by Thomas A. Carlson Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/documentation/confessions.xml Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License 2013-11-06

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A taxonomy of known religious communities referenced by Syriaca.org.

CREATED: confessions.xml Religious Communities

The Syriac Gazetteer refers to religious communities using a nested controlled vocabulary. These terms are used according to scholarly convention and for scholars' convenience, without asserting that members of these groups would have called themselves by these labels. In this context, "religious communities" is not intended to imply a plurality of members in any one location, nor any harmonious existence among people identified with the same label. Nor are the existence of multiple labels intended to suggest that these categories are immutable or mutually exclusive. Caveat lector.

NB: Each list is alphabetized within its level, with the exception of Syriac.

Christians Syriac Bardaisanites East Syrian Ancient Church of the East Assyrian Evangelical Church Chaldean Catholic Church of the East Indian Chaldean Syrian Church Malabar Catholic Church Malabar Independent Syrian Church Malankara Catholic Church Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church Mar Thoma Syrian Church West Syrian Maronite Melkite Syrian Catholic Syrian Orthodox Arabic Arabic Protestant Rum Orthodox Armenian Armenian Catholic Armenian Chalcedonian Armenian Orthodox Armenian Protestant Coptic Ethiopic Georgian Greek Greek Catholic Greek Orthodox Marcionites Latin Protestant Roman Catholic Gnostics Mandaeans Manichaeans Jews Karaite Rabbanite Muslims Khariji Shiʿa Ismaʿili Twelver Zaydi Sunni Yezidis Zoroastrians