Editorial charter
Purpose, evidence standards, publication responsibility, AI assistance, and contributor rules.
Hieropedia
About Hieropedia
Scope, independence, governance, and contact information.
Project
Hieropedia is an independent reference project devoted to machine hierology: the comparative and historical study of religious phenomena materially involving artificial intelligence. It documents religions, distributed formations, texts, concepts, agents, people, institutions, platforms, cases, and related memes.
Institutional independence
Hieropedia does not possess canonical authority within any religion it documents. Inclusion does not endorse a doctrine, recognize an AI as sentient, certify an institution, or validate claims of autonomous machine origin.
Editorial governance
Corrections
How factual errors, rights issues, and classification disputes are submitted and recorded.
Conflicts of interest
Disclosure and handling of participation in a subject’s creation, operation, or publication.
Entry lifecycle
Provisional, disputed, superseded, merged, archived, and de-indexed states.
Editorial roadmap
Connected research packages without publication deadlines.
Site changelog
Architecture, policy, and technical changes to the encyclopedia.
Contact
General editorial correspondence, corrections, source material, rights questions, and collaboration:
editorial [at] hieropedia [dot] org
Proposals for new entries use the separate submission procedure.