- Contain key doctrines and expresses themthrough sacred writings

- Examples

- Can be modernised with latest computer technlogy

- Give doctrinal elements a lived expression

- Strengthens adherent's relationship with the supernatural

- Transcendent Worldview

- Immanent Worldview

- Embodies the doctrines in the form of lawsand precepts

- Derived from key values

- Guides and rules must be applicable to thepractical demands of daily life

- Brings people together in communities

- Come in the form of doctrines and tenets

- Groups can reinterpret universal meaningsto make them applicable to theircommunity