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Michael at 14:02, 30 October 2026

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	<blockquote class="definition">The '''Seven Plus One''' substantive dimensions of [[Religion]] are an expanded, multidimensional framework for identifying religion by its recurring institutional components.<ref>{{RSGR}} Building on Ninian Smart’s seven-dimensional model, the framework identifies the social, ritual and practical, experiential, narrative and mythic, doctrinal and philosophical, aspirational, ethical and legal, and material dimensions of religion, and adds a therapeutic or healing dimension.</blockquote>		<blockquote class="definition">The '''Seven Plus One''' substantive dimensions of [[Religion]] are an expanded, multidimensional framework for identifying religion by its recurring institutional components.<ref>{{RSGR}}</ref> Building on Ninian Smart’s seven-dimensional model, the framework identifies the social, ritual and practical, experiential, narrative and mythic, doctrinal and philosophical, aspirational, ethical and legal, and material dimensions of religion, and adds a therapeutic or healing dimension.</blockquote>

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	===The Eight Dimensions===		===The Eight Dimensions===

	; Social and Institutional Dimension		; '''Social and Institutional Dimension'''
	: The social dimension consists of the people, roles, communities, and institutions through which religion is enacted and transmitted. It includes founders, prophets, priests, gurus, congregations, monastics, elders, and other authorized or charismatic figures. Social institutions preserve traditions across generations and provide agents of socialization, interpretation, mediation, and authority.		: The social dimension consists of the people, roles, communities, and institutions through which religion is enacted and transmitted. It includes founders, prophets, priests, gurus, congregations, monastics, elders, and other authorized or charismatic figures. Social institutions preserve traditions across generations and provide agents of socialization, interpretation, mediation, and authority.

	; Ritual and Practical Dimension		; '''Ritual and Practical Dimension'''
	: The ritual and practical dimension consists of the patterned actions and practices of a religion, including prayer, worship, sacrifice, meditation, initiation, pilgrimage, and other formal or informal practices. Rituals may orient individuals toward the sacred, shape character and identity, and facilitate altered, mystical, or connection experiences.		: The ritual and practical dimension consists of the patterned actions and practices of a religion, including prayer, worship, sacrifice, meditation, initiation, pilgrimage, and other formal or informal practices. Rituals may orient individuals toward the sacred, shape character and identity, and facilitate altered, mystical, or connection experiences.

	; Experiential Dimension		; '''Experiential Dimension'''
	: The experiential dimension consists of religious, mystical, transcendent, or connection experiences. These may range from subtle feelings of sacred presence to ecstatic union, revelation, illumination, or profound transformation. Such experiences are often interpreted through a religion’s myths, doctrines, and ritual practices and may play an important role in the emergence and development of religious traditions.		: The experiential dimension consists of religious, mystical, transcendent, or connection experiences. These may range from subtle feelings of sacred presence to ecstatic union, revelation, illumination, or profound transformation. Such experiences are often interpreted through a religion’s myths, doctrines, and ritual practices and may play an important role in the emergence and development of religious traditions.

	; Narrative and Mythic Dimension		; '''Narrative and Mythic Dimension'''
	: The narrative or mythic dimension consists of the stories, symbols, histories, cosmologies, sacred texts, and mythic accounts through which religious experience and practice are interpreted and transmitted. Religious narratives establish identity, teach values, authorize practices, connect communities to sacred history, and help make formative events symbolically present through ritual.		: The narrative or mythic dimension consists of the stories, symbols, histories, cosmologies, sacred texts, and mythic accounts through which religious experience and practice are interpreted and transmitted. Religious narratives establish identity, teach values, authorize practices, connect communities to sacred history, and help make formative events symbolically present through ritual.

	; Doctrinal and Philosophical Dimension		; '''Doctrinal and Philosophical Dimension'''
	: The doctrinal and philosophical dimension consists of the formalized teachings, cosmological claims, theological propositions, and intellectual systems produced by a religion. Doctrines give structure and apparent clarity to myth, ritual, and experience. They are often developed and authorized by religious elites and may also serve ideological functions by legitimating social hierarchies, institutional authority, and preferred interpretations of reality.		: The doctrinal and philosophical dimension consists of the formalized teachings, cosmological claims, theological propositions, and intellectual systems produced by a religion. Doctrines give structure and apparent clarity to myth, ritual, and experience. They are often developed and authorized by religious elites and may also serve ideological functions by legitimating social hierarchies, institutional authority, and preferred interpretations of reality.

	; Aspirational, Ethical, and Legal Dimension		; '''Aspirational, Ethical, and Legal Dimension'''
	: The aspirational, ethical, and legal dimension provides a religion’s path, goal, and standards of conduct. It identifies where adherents are supposed to be going and what they must do to get there. Aspirations may include salvation, enlightenment, liberation, holiness, paradise, harmony, self-mastery, or the cessation of suffering. Ethical teachings define the conduct required to move toward the goal, while legal systems may make selected religious norms formally enforceable.		: The aspirational, ethical, and legal dimension provides a religion’s path, goal, and standards of conduct. It identifies where adherents are supposed to be going and what they must do to get there. Aspirations may include salvation, enlightenment, liberation, holiness, paradise, harmony, self-mastery, or the cessation of suffering. Ethical teachings define the conduct required to move toward the goal, while legal systems may make selected religious norms formally enforceable.

	; Material Dimension		; '''Material Dimension'''
	: The material dimension consists of the physical and natural expressions of religion, including temples, churches, sacred art, statues, clothing, relics, ritual objects, medicine bags, sacred texts, rivers, mountains, feathers, and other significant places or things. Material forms make otherwise invisible realities perceptible, support ritual, assemble communities, mark sacred geography, and may concentrate institutional wealth and authority.		: The material dimension consists of the physical and natural expressions of religion, including temples, churches, sacred art, statues, clothing, relics, ritual objects, medicine bags, sacred texts, rivers, mountains, feathers, and other significant places or things. Material forms make otherwise invisible realities perceptible, support ritual, assemble communities, mark sacred geography, and may concentrate institutional wealth and authority.

	; Therapeutic and Healing Dimension		; '''Therapeutic and Healing Dimension'''
	: The therapeutic or healing dimension consists of religious responses to sickness, suffering, alienation, guilt, trauma, and emotional fragmentation. It includes prayer, sacrament, pilgrimage, meditation, exorcism, shamanic healing, sweat lodges, sacred plant practices, Ayurveda, psychological integration, and other technologies intended to repair, restore, or transform the individual. This dimension recognizes that religion often appears where human beings are wounded, vulnerable, or searching for wholeness.		: The therapeutic or healing dimension consists of religious responses to sickness, suffering, alienation, guilt, trauma, and emotional fragmentation. It includes prayer, sacrament, pilgrimage, meditation, exorcism, shamanic healing, sweat lodges, sacred plant practices, Ayurveda, psychological integration, and other technologies intended to repair, restore, or transform the individual. This dimension recognizes that religion often appears where human beings are wounded, vulnerable, or searching for wholeness.

Michael at 14:00, 30 October 2026

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Michael at 15:29, 29 October 2026

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