Canon

Canon may refer to:

Places

Canon, Georgia, a city in the United States
Cañon City, Colorado, United States
- Cañon City Downtown Historic District
- Cañon City School District
  - Cañon City High School
Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada
Canons Park, London, UK
- Canons Park tube station
Mézidon-Canon, a commune in Normandy, France

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book
Canon of Dutch History, 50 topics to be taught in schools in the Netherlands
Canon of Dutch Literature, a list of the most important Dutch literary works
Canon of Eclipses, an 1887 compilation of eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer
Canon of Kings, a dated list of kings used by ancient astronomers as a convenient means to date astronomical phenomena
Danish Culture Canon, a list of 108 works of cultural excellence
Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture

Music

Canon (album), 2007, by Ani DiFranco
Canon (music), a type of contrapuntal composition
"Canon", a 2011 song by Justice
"Pachelbel's Canon", a German Baroque chamber work

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Canon (basic principle), a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base
Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short
Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
Canon (manga), by Nikki
Aesthetic canon, a rule for the proportions of a human figure
The Canon (podcast), concerning film

Brands and enterprises

Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
Château Canon (disambiguation), any of a number of wineries
UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles

Religion

Religious law

Canon law, a set of rules of conduct or belief prescribed by various churches
- Canon law (Catholic Church)
  - Penitential canons, the Catholic canon laws regarding certain penances to be done for certain sins
- Canon law, religious laws, particularly in Christian contexts
- Canonization, the formal process of recognizing a Christian saint
Canon of construction, a rule or generally accepted principle of statutory interpretation

Scriptures

Canon, various formally approved collections of religious text, including:
- Biblical canon, set of texts (or "books") which a particular religious community regards as authoritative scripture
- Chinese Buddhist canon, used in East Asia
- Daozang, the Taoist canon, about 1400 texts collected around the 4th century
- Masoretic version of the Hebrew Bible
- Pāli Canon, used in the Therevada Buddhist tradition
- Tibetan Buddhist canon, a loosely defined list used in the Vajrayana tradition

Other uses in religion

Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Canon (priest), a title of certain Christian priests
Canon of the Mass, the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite
Canons regular, priests living in community under a rule

Other uses

Canon (rapper) (born 1989)
Cañon or canyon, a deep valley between cliffs
Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club

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gollark: But we have technological replacements for arcane social policy.

gollark: It made some sense in the past as some kind of crystallized "no promiscuity" law when we didn't have contraception and stuff.

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gollark: 5 is just elder-worship, which I do *not* agree with, no murdering is reasonable but narrow in scope, the adultery one doesn't seem very important or fundamental-law-y, stealing is bad I guess, bearing false witness is somewhat bad too I guess, the coveting ones seem unnecessary.