The Religion of Humanity

Movement·Founded 1849 CE·Just over thirty in Rio Grande do Sul, by the Porto Alegre temple's own account. No reliable figure exists for anywhere else, because there is almost nowhere else.

The Religion of Humanity

Templo Positivista de Porto Alegre Templo da Humanidade / Igreja Positivista do Brasil

Branch

Overview Belief 4 How to Live 1 Practice 2 Stories & Scripture 1 You × The Religion of Humanity Discussion

Stories

the narratives it tells itself

Ordem e Progresso. The Brazilian flag carries a positivist motto, put there in 1889 by members of the Igreja Positivista do Brasil. It is the largest surviving artefact of the religion by some distance. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

Auguste Comte, Systeme de politique positive (1851-1854)

Auguste Comte, Catechisme positiviste (1852)

The Positivist Calendar (1849)

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