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apostasy

formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion
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Summary

apostasy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,890 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: renunciation[2]
  • Commons category: Apostasy[3]
  • Has part(s): Apostasy in Islam[4], apostasy in Christianity[5], apostasy in Judaism[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Apostasy[7]
  • Facet of: religion[8], human rights[9], freedom of thought[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16]
  • Partially coincident with: religious conversion[17]
  • Practiced by: apostate[18]

Why It Matters

apostasy has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] apostasy is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

human rights religion

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → a/apostasia
    Svkkl authority id → 0300204-apostaze
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0300204-apostaze, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → religious conversion
    Has part(s) → Apostasy in Islam, apostasy in Christianity, apostasy in Judaism
    Has parts → —
    Facet of → religion, human rights, freedom of thought
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 29359, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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