All Ideas

58 ideas · 6 shelves · what travels between the faiths
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Banded by how many separate families of the tree hold each idea — 52 families in all. The bar is how many individual faiths carry it, which is a softer number: thirty denominations of one tradition inheriting an idea is not the same event as two strangers arriving at it.

Across the whole tree

held in eight or more unrelated families — nobody had to be taught these by anybody
Ritual Prescribed action — gesture, word, and timing — carrying meaning the way language carries thought. 118 faiths 38 families Community consensus Truth is discerned together; authority rests with the gathered community. 95 faiths 32 families Lineage transmission The teaching passes living from teacher to student, hand to hand across generations. 84 faiths 27 families Authority of scripture A text stands as the final measure of truth and practice. 66 faiths 22 families Service Work done for others as worship — the hands as instruments of belief. 64 faiths 26 families Human equality Every person stands equal; no rank, caste, or birth holds before the divine. 57 faiths 24 families Purity and renewal Impurity accumulates and can be washed away — renewal through cleansing. 56 faiths 22 families Sacred law Divine will expressed as law — a code of conduct that is itself an act of devotion to keep. 53 faiths 18 families Free choice The choice is genuinely yours — nothing compels the soul's answer. 48 faiths 26 families A people set apart A people set apart by covenant or calling, bearing a particular charge. 47 faiths 9 families Direct experience of the divine The divine can be met firsthand, without intermediary. 45 faiths 18 families Asceticism Renouncing comfort on purpose, stripping life down until only what matters remains. 43 faiths 20 families Devotion Loving surrender to the divine — the heart's attachment as a path in itself. 43 faiths 17 families Many valid paths Truth admits many approaches; different paths can climb the same mountain. 38 faiths 21 families Prayer Addressing the divine directly — petition, praise, or simple presence. 38 faiths 12 families Charity as duty Giving to those in need is obligation, not generosity — a debt the fortunate owe. 35 faiths 21 families Martyrdom Bearing witness at the cost of one's life — a death that testifies. 35 faiths 14 families Covenant A binding agreement between the divine and a people, with obligations flowing both ways. 30 faiths 10 families Liberation Release from the cycle — the freedom that ends the wandering. 30 faiths 21 families Meditation Training attention itself — sitting with the mind until it grows still or clear. 29 faiths 13 families Compassion Feeling the suffering of others as one's own, and acting to ease it. 26 faiths 17 families Non-violence No harm to any living being — restraint as the deepest strength. 26 faiths 14 families Impermanence Nothing lasts. All things arise, change, and pass away — and wisdom begins there. 25 faiths 20 families Prophethood God speaks through chosen messengers who carry the word to their people. 25 faiths 10 families An open canon Scripture is not finished — the heavens still speak, and the canon stays open. 24 faiths 13 families Joy as devotion Delight as a religious act — celebration reaches where solemnity cannot. 24 faiths 15 families One God There is exactly one God — a single source behind everything that is. 24 faiths 16 families Saints and intercession The holy dead remain close, and can be asked to intercede. 23 faiths 11 families Final judgment A final reckoning, in which every life is weighed. 22 faiths 9 families Non-duality The apparent many are ultimately one; separateness is the illusion to see through. 21 faiths 13 families The inner light Something of the divine is present in every person, and can be consulted directly. 20 faiths 16 families Balance of opposites Opposites need each other; wisdom holds them together rather than picking a winner. 18 faiths 15 families Awakening Seeing reality as it actually is — the transformation the path bends toward. 17 faiths 10 families Pilgrimage A journey to a sacred place, where the traveling is itself the devotion. 17 faiths 10 families Ancestor veneration The dead remain part of the family; honoring them keeps the bond alive. 16 faiths 13 families Good and evil at war Existence is a contest between good and evil, and every choice takes a side. 16 faiths 13 families Spirits in all things The world is inhabited: rivers, trees, and places have spirits of their own. 14 faiths 12 families Dharma / cosmic order A cosmic order holds the world together, and a life should move in step with it. 12 faiths 9 families No fixed self There is no unchanging self to find; the 'I' is a process, not a thing. 12 faiths 9 families Rebirth The self returns in new lives, again and again, until something releases it. 11 faiths 8 families Karma Every act carries its consequence forward; what you do shapes what you become. 10 faiths 8 families Ritual propriety Right form in every encounter — ceremony as the shape of respect. 8 faiths 8 families

Across families

four to seven roots of the tree, most of which never met
Incarnation The divine takes on flesh and enters history as a living person. 20 faiths 5 families Grace Unearned favor — the divine gives what no effort could purchase. 19 faiths 6 families Messiah / promised one An awaited figure who will arrive, or return, to set the world right. 18 faiths 6 families Absolute divine unity God is one without parts, partners, or peers — unity as the deepest fact about the divine. 14 faiths 7 families Submission to God Peace is found by surrendering the will entirely to God. 14 faiths 5 families Resurrection The dead will rise bodily — death is not the end of the body's story. 12 faiths 5 families Gifts of the Spirit The Spirit still gives powers — healing, prophecy, tongues — to ordinary believers. 7 faiths 4 families Progressive revelation Truth arrives in installments, each messenger suited to their age. 7 faiths 6 families Sudden awakening Awakening does not accumulate — it arrives all at once, like a door swinging open. 7 faiths 4 families Predestination The outcome was settled before you arrived; sovereignty runs all the way down. 6 faiths 4 families

In a few families

two or three — a shared inheritance, or a genuine coincidence
Sacraments Rites through which the divine becomes tangibly present — grace given a body. 36 faiths 3 families Apostolic succession Authority handed down in an unbroken chain from the founders. 26 faiths 3 families Fasting Going without food for a time, so hunger can teach what plenty cannot. 16 faiths 3 families Effortless action Acting without forcing — moving with the grain of things, the way water does. 3 faiths 2 families

Inside one family

particular to one root and its branches — the specifics a tradition owns
Trinity One God in three persons, distinct yet undivided. 7 faiths 1 family Faith over works Trust, not accomplishment, is what saves; works follow faith rather than earn it. 5 faiths 1 family
Ideas are how two faiths get compared. Every entry here is a place faiths can meet — open one to see each faith's own wording side by side, or see the faiths themselves arranged by which of these they share.
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Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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58 ideas · 6 shelves

An idea is Panfaith's comparison instrument: a shared vocabulary that lets one faith's claims be matched against every other's.

An entry never sums up a religion. It marks one place where faiths can meet. Two faiths carrying grace have agreed about a word, not about a doctrine — open the entry and their own phrasings sit side by side, disagreements included.

The shelves are ours, not theirs. Six groupings, plus new arrivals for anything the shelves have not absorbed yet. No tradition organises itself this way; the shelves exist so 58 entries can be scanned rather than scrolled — and the Web view is where you can watch them fail, because the clusters the corpus makes are not the drawers we put things in.

A line in the Web is company, not agreement. Two ideas are joined when the faiths holding one are disproportionately the faiths holding the other — at least three of them, and only where that happens far more often than chance would explain. The multiplier on a pair is exactly that: faiths holding both, divided by how many would if holding one told you nothing about the other. Plain overlap would join everything to ritual, which is a picture of how common ritual is and not of how anything relates. And none of it says two faiths agree — two traditions can hold grace and mean irreconcilable things by it.

Reach counts families, not followers. The third view bands each idea by how many separate roots of the tree hold it. That is the only measure here that means anything about travel: sibling denominations sharing an idea inherited it, while two unrelated roots holding the same thing is the coincidence this whole site exists to show you. Neither band is a rank — an idea held inside one family is not a lesser idea, it is a more particular one.

The faith count is what Panfaith has tagged. It counts claims recorded on this site, not scholarly consensus about who believes what — a thinly written faith carries fewer ideas than a well written one, and that is a fact about our backlog rather than about the religion.

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