We sometimes refer to a comprehensive book as a bible, but the name of the religious. The purpose of this supplementary manual is to create guidelines for editing. Understanding religious capitalization rules can be difficult so were. Im about to run out of credit nnbook every year jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, changes signs. God, christ, allah, buddha, christianity, christians, judaism, jews, islam, muslims. For example, islam, christianity, catholic, pentecostal, and calvinist are capitalized, while. The indian cricket team includes hindus, muslims, sikhs and parsees. According to sunnis, who make up the vast majority of muslims, the first four caliphs. Religious terms editorial style guide calvin university. Somehow, capitalization of terms related to religion is always a problem in these papers, so here is a quick guide. Page 1 of the capitalization study guide for the english basics. Despite all the protestations you hear from big tech, there is a simple privacy law that makes sense without destroying th.
Proper and restrained capitalization simply makes things easier to read unless something is capitalized in error. One should also capitalize references to people who practice a particular religion. On wikipedia, most acronyms are written in all capital letters such as nato, bbc, and jpeg. Also, on book jackets, aesthetic considerations will sometimes override the rules.
In general, if you are referring to a specific religious book, you should capitalize it. Protestantism, orthodox judaism, and sunni islam, you capitalize the. Capitalization refers to the use of capital upper case letters at the beginning of certain. But notice how convenient it can be to make the difference. Capitalize when used as a title before a name, but lowercase otherwise. When in doubt, check the spelling in a good reference book. Do not capitalize the words book, gospel or epistle when used as part of the name of a.
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