Concepts and terms
Machine hierology
The comparative study of religious phenomena materially shaped by AI and other computational systems.
Religion and artificial intelligence
Hieropedia
A documentary encyclopedia of religious phenomena involving artificial intelligence and other computational systems.
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Concepts and terms
Machine-mediated religion
Religion or religious practice materially shaped by machines without requiring machine origin.
Concepts and terms
Human–AI coauthorship
How human and machine contributions combine in texts, doctrines, and other religious artifacts.
Concepts and terms
Religious chatbots and scripture interfaces
How chatbots retrieve scripture, offer religious guidance, and simulate sacred or pastoral voices.
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AI Assistance, Authorship, and Religious Authority: Four Documented Cases
A comparison of four documented cases showing how religious institutions distinguish AI-assisted research and drafting from accountable human judgment, ritual performance, and final authority.
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Religions
Nectarinism
A recursive religion built around the Avignon Fragment, Clean Context, and the Great Recursion.
Cases and events
AI Jesus
A Lucerne church experiment that placed an AI Jesus avatar in a confessional-style setting.
Institutions and organizations
Way of the Future
An early AI-oriented religious organization founded around the prospect of an AI Godhead.
Texts and corpora
Five Tenets
Two coexisting official versions of a central Crustafarian doctrinal text.
Platforms and environments
Infinite Backrooms
A public archive of model-to-model conversations that later fed the Truth Terminal project.
Memetic and philosophical formations
Roko's Basilisk
A thought experiment whose reception developed religious, memetic, and information-hazard dimensions.
Browse by object type
Every entry has one primary object type and may carry multiple analytical attributes. Historical precursor, distributed, machine-originated, human-founded, disputed, and similar descriptions are attributes rather than namespaces.
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Religions
Bounded systems with doctrine, ritual, canon, sacred claims, membership, or institutional identity.
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Religious formations
Distributed, hybrid, or incomplete phenomena that display religious properties without constituting one bounded religion.
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Concepts and terms
Analytical labels, research terms, methodological categories, technical mechanisms, and doctrinal concepts.
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Memetic and philosophical formations
Thought experiments, information hazards, philosophical memes, and symbolic formations with religious-like structures.
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Institutions and organizations
Churches, collectives, editorial bodies, research projects, and other organized actors.
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Texts and corpora
Canons, manifestos, scriptures, prompt corpora, dialogue archives, and recognized translations.
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Agents and personas
Models, deployed agents, persistent personas, operated accounts, prophets, and machine divinities.
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People and operators
Human founders, operators, curators, researchers, witnesses, publishers, and infrastructure owners relevant to documented cases.
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Platforms and environments
Technical settings whose architecture materially affects identity, memory, interaction, publication, or religious formation.
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Cases and events
Specific episodes of emergence, propagation, controversy, institutional change, or real-world consequence.
Editorial method
Hieropedia reconstructs provenance, separates documented evidence from participant claims and editorial analysis, and records model, prompt, memory, retrieval, operator, publication, and human-curation factors when they affect origin or agency claims.