Religious

Shared belief and practice complexes organised around sacred or ultimate concerns, including the institutions and community structures that maintain, transmit and regulate those beliefs and practices.

• belief and practice systems organised around sacred or ultimate concerns
• religious institutions and leadership structures
• ritual and community practices that reproduce the system
• membership and affiliation structures, including non-theistic groups

• laws, rights and regulations governing religious practice — goes to legal
• individual moral philosophy not embedded in a belief-practice community — lens ethics
• political movements merely using religious rhetoric — goes to political

Declared gap No sources have been cited.

• Religious law such as canon law or sharia within a state system can be both. The normative-religious system is treated as religious, and its state-enforced codification as legal.

• Including non-theistic affiliation structures makes the inclusion criterion hard to bound. If shared practice around ultimate concerns is sufficient, it is not clear what excludes a sports team or a political movement.