Families of Religions

The term "family" describes one approach to  the relationship between religions of the world..

A family is always changing and yet has a continuing identity. Families know good times and hard times, victories and tragedies. Families have names of persons, dates of births and deaths, and events that reveal how the family deals with others and with outside events. 

 Families differ radically across cultures.  Family of one kind or another is a universal reality. 

Then comes taxonomy. This is the placing of groups into orderly categories. In the field of religion taxonomy is not well developed because of the complexity involved. The approach here is to try out the system and see how taxonomy can be applied to religions. 

So why should religions be interested in this approach? Here is one argument. Go to http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
This site will display the code being developed to cover every character of every known language and assign it a number. Unicode is developed by a non-profit organization representing a "broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry". I believe that their efforts have significant implications for the religions of the world. 

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