Religion

[davux]

I couldn't find any field to describe the religious beliefs / practice of a person.

Such a field could be named: religion, cult, spirituality, spiritualBelief...

There might be a distinction to make between the religion as a personal matter or belief, and the membership to a given religious organisation or institution. For example you might define yourself as catholic because you relate to what the Bible says and you believe what other people who label themselves as catholics believe, but you're maybe not a member of the catholic Church, e.g. because you were never baptised or simply because you don't relate to the catholic Church itself.

As for the content, I'm naively thinking of a single attribute of type "string", since a given person can label themself with different religion names, due to the variety of nuances between people's spiritual beliefs... and to the number of possible names for all nuances of beliefs. This is something highly subjective and we should probably let the people just label themselves. While there might be a need at some point for classification, such classification would likely be done in a subjective way too, so a nomenclature wouldn't probably help a lot anyway.

To contradict myself on the content part though, a more structured field could be something along the lines of (no humour or offense meant, this is just for illustration purposes):

religion {
  "family": "christian",
  "organization": "Sacred Church of Friends of Animals",
  "description": "Vegan Christian"
}

Thoughts?

[bufferoverflow]

I personally think that this would also require a locked-in and/or open-for-a-multireligion-humanized-world-of-peace field 😸 .

[kevinawilson]

I've been meaning to write up a proposal on some religious terminology (pursuant to a comment I made on schemaorg/schemaorg#1605). I think we need to distinguish between three things: (1) a religion, which signifies a set of beliefs and practices apart from an organization, (2) a denomination, which denotes an organization within a religion, and (3) a place of worship, which may or may not be affiliated with 1 or 2.

Examples:

{ "@type: "Person" "name": "John Doe", "religion": "Christian", "denomination": "Episcopal" memberOf: { "@type": "PlaceOfWorship", "name: "St. Paul's Church",
}

{ "@type: "Person" "name": "Abraham Doe", "religion": "Jewish", "denomination": "Reform" memberOf: { "@type": "PlaceOfWorship", "name: "Temple Ohel Shalom",
}

We might also want to consider having subsets of PlaceOfWorship, such as church, synagogue, temple, shrine, mosque, chapel, or make a property that takes a string. The general type of place would be limited by the religion (e.g., there are no Muslim Synagogues), but most religions make distinctions between different buildings used for different purposes.

[jroedel]

I think religion is an important topic to be able to model, but I'm especially surprised at the lack of vocabulary to describe religious/spiritual services. The majority of the world population attends regular religious ceremonies, but there's it's not clear what is the best way to describe the schedules. I propose a ReligiousServiceEvent.

[rvguha]

We have tried to stay away from religions per se, but I do agree that ReligiousServiceEvent is a reasonable addition.

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[rvatsan]

Hi, I am new to Schema. I am using HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery in a website. Want to know if there is a way to represent in schema the following

1. Religion
2. Philosophy / Philosopher
3. Saint
4. Tried Celebrity . I did not find any :( in schema.org Question is, how to add a person who was a Saint (like Mother Theresa) who did lot of social work to humanity. Just my 2bit, think we need to add the above. I may stay away from religion or any specific beliefs, but my website talks about a Saint. So I need to include it for better search results.

Regards Srivatsan.

[chrisspradling1980]

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On Fri, May 8, 2020, 9:14 AM rvatsan notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, I am new to Schema. I am using HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery in a website. Want to know if there is a way to represent in schema the following

1. Religion
2. Philosophy / Philosopher
3. Saint
4. Tried Celebrity . I did not find any :( in schema.org Question is, how to add a person who was a Saint (like Mother Theresa) who did lot of social work to humanity. Just my 2bit, think we need to add the above. I may stay away from religion or any specific beliefs, but my website talks about a Saint. So I need to include it for better search results.

Regards Srivatsan.

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[RichardWallis]

See issue #7 for the context of the move from the main Schema.org issue tracker to this repository.