Faith

Here is where you manage the faiths that you use in your writing. You assign the Gods different creation stories per faith because different religions may interpret events in the history of Gods different. That is, several faiths in your world may use the same Pantheon, but they all have different stories about which Gods do what.

Faiths are different from pantheons, in that they represent subject snap-shots, that catch only part of the 'whole' system of religion and mythology that you have developed for your world. When you add gods here, you can choose to add only certain gods -- maybe this faith only worships the Good Gods.

You can add Faith Specific Details to explain how this faith's viewpoint of the deity is different from the global view.

To update the Religious Properties just click on a category, edit the Description and then click Update.

Table 3: Types of Religious Organizations: *

 

Role Specialization

Common Subsistence Pattern

Example

Individualistic

None

Forager

vision quest

Shamanistic

Part-time specialization

Forager

shamanism

Communal

groups perform rites for community

horticulture /pastoralism

rites of passage and rites of solidarity (i.e. ancestral cult)

Ecclesiastical

Full-time specialization in an organizer religious hierarchy

industrialism

Christianity and Buddhism


*All information taken from Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, Gary Ferraro, Wenda Trevathan, and Janet Levy, 1994. West Publishing Company.

See Also

Pantheon

Culture (for more information on using this style of form)

Submit your faiths


Example

In a fantasy world, the LadyChurch sees their Lady as the founder of her Pantheon of Gods, whereas the other religions, that use the same Pantheon, see her as a figure of evil.