# Religious Continuity Election
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Religion / Prospective Autonomy
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in religious liberty and continuity election
## Definition
A **Religious Continuity Election** is a person's explicit civil instruction that technological preservation, reconstruction, or hosting should be accepted, refused, conditioned, or interpreted in accordance with stated religious commitments.
## Continuity Significance
It allows religious agency without allowing the state to infer technological custody from affiliation alone.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Advance directives, funeral instructions, religious accommodations, and continuity-election architecture supply structural precedent.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
A sacrament is not automatically a civil technological-continuity directive.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Eschatological Neutrality|Eschatological Neutrality]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] · [[wiki/Non-Technological Continuity Election|Non-Technological Continuity Election]] · [[wiki/Religious Liberty in Continuity|Religious Liberty in Continuity]]