religious law
Divine legal code
Religious law is a system of rules and principles derived from sacred texts, divine revelation, or religious tradition, governing both spiritual practice and daily conduct.
Examples include Islamic sharia, Jewish halakha, and Catholic canon law.
Religious law may operate alongside or in tension with secular legal systems: The court had to determine whether religious law could override civil marriage statutes.
Permitted under Islamic law
- haramForbidden by Islamic law
- fatwaIslamic legal pronouncement
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
- qadiIslamic legal adjudicator
Sacred religious writings
- prophetsProclaimers of sacred truth
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- templeSacred worship structure
taboo · sanctity · sabbath · worship · altar · shrine · divinity · pilgrimage
Authoritative rules demanding compliance
- preceptsRules of conduct
- prohibitionsFormal orders against something
- sinViolation of divine law
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
repentance · conscience · purity · righteousness · virtue · judgment · guilt · penance
Unchallengeable official beliefs
- theologyStudy of the divine
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
creed · exegesis · catechism · schism · ecumenical · sectarian · blasphemy · proselytize
Permissible by Jewish law
Relating to church matters
- canonicalAccepted as standard
- synodChurch governing assembly
- dioceseBishop's territorial jurisdiction
- curiaAdministrative assembly hall
papal · episcopal · pontifical · apostolic · encyclical · prelate · archbishop · vicar
Formal event marking occasions
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- ablutionRitualized washing of body
- liturgyFormal worship structure
baptism · communion · ordination · matrimony · confirmation · anointing · vespers · circumcision
halal
Permitted under Islamic law
- haramForbidden by Islamic law
- fatwaIslamic legal pronouncement
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
scripture
Sacred religious writings
- prophetsProclaimers of sacred truth
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- covenantBinding formal pledge
temple · taboo · sanctity · sabbath · worship · altar · shrine · divinity · pilgrimage · fasting
commandments
Authoritative rules demanding compliance
- preceptsRules of conduct
- prohibitionsFormal orders against something
- sinViolation of divine law
atonement · repentance · conscience · purity · righteousness · virtue · judgment · guilt · penance · absolution
dogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
- theologyStudy of the divine
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
apostasy · creed · exegesis · catechism · schism · ecumenical · sectarian · blasphemy · proselytize · homily
kosher
Permissible by Jewish law
ecclesiastical
Relating to church matters
curia · papal · episcopal · pontifical · apostolic · encyclical · prelate · archbishop · vicar · patriarchal
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
liturgy · baptism · communion · ordination · matrimony · confirmation · anointing · vespers · circumcision · mikvah
- Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, Islamic law, fatwa
- religious lawcanon law, sharia, Islamic law, sacred law, Mosaic law
- Abrahamic faithsJudaism, Christianity, Islam, Abraham, God
- IslamAllah, Quran, Muhammad, Mecca, Ramadan
- legal systemsconstitutional law, judiciary, criminal code, court system, penal code
- European JewsAshkenazi, Sephardic, synagogues, rabbis, Holocaust
religious lawsecular law
Legal code without religious basis
civil law · state law · human law · statutory law · constitutional law
religious lawsecularism
Separation of faith, state
separation of church and state · civil code · Napoleonic Code
lawyer, religion, religious, lawful, lawless, lawsuit, unlawful, religions, nonreligious