The Definitions of each Aspect:
- Beliefs - articles of faith that are though by adherents to be true or evident
- Myths and Stories - relate in imaginative detail a believed truth, such as they conveyed by historiography, legends, edifying parables and folklore
- Sacred Texts - complications of oral and written literature in which the essential parts of the religious tradition are recorded
- Rituals- religious or other formal ceremonies that consist of a series of actions, sayings, prayers, contemplative practices, dances or painting that are performed according to a prescribed order
- Symbols - abstract principles by which a person, action or thing can stand for something else
- Social Structure - an established social model to which society conforms which often places religious leadership at or near the top of society
- Ethical principles or code behaviour- visionary ideals or specify attributers of a perfect world from which comes all morality, laws, norms and idea about what adherents ought to do; this is synthesised into specific advice or lists of qualities values or laws that would bring about the ideal
- Religious experiences and spirituality - life event that can be had in religious and non-religious contact to which religious meaning is attached by leadership, participants and witnesses; certain sacred practices that facilitate access to ultimate reality and affirm beliefs for adherents