Religious Law

Religious law is a family of legal systems in which law derives its authority from a sacred text or a divinely inspired tradition, interpreted by religious scholars or clergy, rather than from a secular legislature or accumulated judicial precedent alone. Its major members include Halakha in Judaism, Sharia in Islam, canon law in Christianity, and classical Hindu law, each with its own sources, interpretive schools and historical development. This atlas treats religious law only as a system family: the doctrinal detail of each religious legal tradition, its sacred sources, schools of jurisprudence and lived practice, is the Divinity Atlas's own subject, per the family seam set by ruling 631, and is not duplicated here.