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For your convinience, I am pasting the questionnaire available at the above link here:
1. Name of the ‘beliefs set’ being described
2. Explicit (e.g., a creed) or implicit (generally observed but rarely stated) statement(s) of belief, axioms. etc.
3. Description of Deity/Deities if any.
4. Summum bonum or the ‘ultimate goal’ of religious life, spiritual endeavour. (Could also include an explanation about the present human ‘condition’ that makes the above goal required or otherwise desirable.)
5. Way(s) of achieving the above stated goal.
6. Scripture(s) if any, their significance
7. Founder and other personages that are respected and honoured, if applicable
8. Mythology; covering cosmology, theogony and tradition
9. Moral / Ethical Framework (if applicable) and the ‘concept of good/virtue’ as commonly understood
10. Religious organisation.
11. Modes of worship, prominent rituals, if any.
12. Major Festivals, if any.
13. Historical perspective and evolution and social organisation
14. Political ideology, ideas about the ‘state’ as propounded
15. Major groups/sects (if any), points of similarity and schism between the groups.
16. Demographics and statistics if available
17. Salient / peculiar features
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