We sometimes refer to a comprehensive book as a bible, but the name of the religious. Despite all the protestations you hear from big tech, there is a simple privacy law that makes sense without destroying th. The purpose of this supplementary manual is to create guidelines for editing. Capitalization in book, poem, movie, song, or other publication titles can be tricky. On wikipedia, most acronyms are written in all capital letters such as nato, bbc, and jpeg. Rapids are two of the many churches that make up the church worldwide. Why are christian, muslim and buddhist capitalized, while atheist. Capital letters are not really an aspect of punctuation, but it is convenient to deal with them here.
One should also capitalize references to people who practice a particular religion. Capitalize when used as a title before a name, but lowercase otherwise. God, christ, allah, buddha, christianity, christians, judaism, jews, islam, muslims. Also, on book jackets, aesthetic considerations will sometimes override the rules. Capitalization refers to the use of capital upper case letters at the beginning of certain.
In general, if you are referring to a specific religious book, you should capitalize it. Capitalizing religions and religious holidays capitalize my title. Protestantism, orthodox judaism, and sunni islam, you capitalize the. According to sunnis, who make up the vast majority of muslims, the first four caliphs. Im about to run out of credit nnbook every year jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, changes signs. Do not capitalize the words book, gospel or epistle when used as part of the name of a. Proper and restrained capitalization simply makes things easier to read unless something is capitalized in error. Muslim is the preferred spelling for the name referring to followers of islam. Traditional astrology calls this mighty lord of the planets zeus, to the greeks a the greater benefic,a meaning the most powerful and favorable influence venus being the a lesser benefic. Religious terms editorial style guide calvin university. Understanding religious capitalization rules can be difficult so were.
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