---
id: "religion"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["persons", "pii"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/religion"
---

# Religion (`religion`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Religion, religious denomination or worldview of a person or a group, such as Catholic, Sunni Islam or Buddhism. Censuses and surveys often record it. Under the GDPR, data that reveals a person's religious beliefs is a special category of personal data.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Person related (persons), Personally identifiable information (pii)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `Catholic` — denomination
- `Evangelical Protestant` — denomination group used in surveys
- `Buddhism` — religion

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:Religion`
- sherlock: `religion`
- wikidata: `P140`

## Supported by tools

- `collibra`
- `databricks`
- `doduo`
- `ibmknowledgecatalog`
- `oracledatasafe`
- `sato`
- `sherlock`

## Translations

- ru: Религия

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P140>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/religion.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/persons/religion.yaml>