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| Honorifics and [[Wikipedia:royal and noble styles|styles of nobility]] should normally be capitalized, e.g., {{xt|Her Majesty}}, {{xt|His Holiness}}. | | Honorifics and [[Wikipedia:royal and noble styles|styles of nobility]] should normally be capitalized, e.g., {{xt|Her Majesty}}, {{xt|His Holiness}}. |
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| =={{Anchor|Religion|Philosophy|Movement}}Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines and their adherents==
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| <!-- DO NOT CHANGE Anchor name if section name is changed - it is used by incoming links. -->{{shortcut|MOS:ISMCAPS|MOS:CAPS#Religion}}
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| {{see also|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles#Scripture}}
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| Names of organized religions (as well as officially recognized sects), whether as a noun or an adjective, and their adherents start with a capital letter. Unofficial movements, ideologies or philosophies within religions are generally not capitalized unless derived from a proper name. For example, ''Islam'', ''Christianity'', ''Catholic'', ''Pentecostal'' and ''Calvinist'' are capitalized, while ''evangelicalism'' and ''fundamentalism'' are not.
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| [[Proper name]]s and titles referencing deities are capitalized: ''God'', ''Allah'', ''Freyja'', ''the Lord'', ''the Supreme Being'', ''the Messiah''. The same is true when referring to important religious figures, such as Muhammad, by terms such as ''the Prophet''. [[Common noun]]s not used as titles should not be capitalized: ''the Norse gods'', ''personal god''. In a biblical context, ''God'' is capitalized only when it refers to the Judeo-Christian deity, and ''prophet'' is generally not capitalized.
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| Transcendent ideas in the Platonic sense also begin with a capital letter: ''Good'' and ''Truth''. Nouns (other than names) referring to any material or abstract representation of any deity, human or otherwise, are not capitalized.<!--example?-->
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| {{Anchor| deity-pronouns}}[[Pronoun]]s for deities and figures of veneration are not capitalized, even if capitalized in a religion's scriptures: {{xt|Jesus addressed his followers}}, not {{!xt|Jesus addressed His followers}} (except in a direct quotation).
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| The names of major revered works of scripture like the Bible, the Qur'an, the Talmud, and the Vedas should be capitalized (but are often not italicized). The adjective ''biblical'' should not be capitalized. ''Koranic'' is normally capitalized, but usage varies for ''talmudic'', ''vedic'', etc. Be consistent within an article.
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| Do not capitalize terms denoting types of [[religion|religious]] or [[mythology|mythical]] beings such as ''angel'', ''fairy'' or ''deva''. The personal names of individual beings are capitalized as normal ({{xt|the angel Gabriel}}). An exception is made when such terms are used to denote [[ethnicity|ethnicities]] in [[fantasy|fantasy fiction]], in which case they are capitalized if the source capitalizes them.
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| {{Anchor|Doctrine}} {{shortcut|MOS:DOCTCAPS}}
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| Philosophies, theories, movements, doctrines, methods, processes, and systems of thought and practice are {{em|not}} capitalized, unless the name derives from a proper name: lowercase ''republican'' refers to a system of political thought; uppercase ''Republican'' refers to a specific [[Republican Party]] (each being a proper name). Even so, watch for idiom: ''Platonic ideals'', or even ''Platonic Ideals'', as a combination of proper nouns, but ''platonic love''. Doctrinal topics, canonical religious ideas, and procedural systems that may be traditionally capitalized within a faith or field are given in lower case in Wikipedia, such as {{xt|virgin birth}} (as a common noun), {{xt|original sin}}, {{xt|transubstantiation}}, and {{xt|method acting}}.
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| Spiritual or religious events are capitalized only when referring to specific incidents or periods ({{xt|the Great Flood}} and {{xt|the Exodus}}; but {{xt|annual flooding}} and {{xt|an exodus of refugees}}).
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