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Traditions, an 1895 bronze tympanum by Olin Levi Warner over the main entrance of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
Taoism. Korean Taoism. Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue") Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity") Way of the Five Pecks of Rice. Way of the Celestial Masters. Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness") Syncretic Taoism. Dragon Gate Taoism.
A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. [ 1][ 2] Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized, but not defined, by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance.
Christian tradition is a collection of traditions consisting of practices or beliefs associated with Christianity. These ecclesiastical traditions have more or less authority based on the nature of the practices or beliefs and on the group in question. [citation needed] Many churches have traditional practices, such as particular patterns of ...
Oral tradition. A traditional Kyrgyz manaschi performing part of the Epic of Manas at a yurt camp in Karakol. Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The transmission is through speech or ...
Sacred tradition. Sacred tradition, also called holy tradition or apostolic tradition, is a theological term used in Christian theology. According to this theological position, sacred Tradition and Scripture form one deposit, so sacred Tradition is a foundation of the doctrinal and spiritual authority of Christianity and of the Bible. Thus, the ...
Invented tradition. "Ancient" Scottish clan tartans are an example of an invented tradition created in the 19th century. Invented traditions are cultural practices that are presented or perceived as traditional, arising from the people starting in the distant past, but which are relatively recent and often even consciously invented by ...
A group of performers sharing traditional Serbian folk music on the streets of Belgrade, Serbia. The word folklore, a compound of folk and lore, was coined in 1846 by the Englishman William Thoms, [ 7] who contrived the term as a replacement for the contemporary terminology of "popular antiquities" or "popular literature".