Svetambara Terapantha Faithscore: 62/100

Overview

Svetambara Terapantha scores 62 out of 100 in Faithscore's evidence-based evaluation, indicating mixed evidence with notable strengths in some criteria but gaps in others.

Faithscore applies court-like evidentiary standards across six weighted criteria. Every system is scored against the same rubric — religious or philosophical — to surface objective comparisons. Read the full methodology.

The six weighted criteria

• Textual fidelity — preservation, manuscript count, and accuracy of source documents.
• Historical verification — independent corroboration, hostile-witness testimony, archaeological confirmation.
• Scientific testability — falsifiable claims, observable evidence, repeatable predictions.
• Internal consistency — logical coherence of doctrine and absence of contradiction.
• Prophetic accuracy — ratio of fulfilled to unfulfilled predictions, dated against earliest manuscripts.
• Explanatory power — how well the system accounts for the breadth of human experience.

Other denominations of Jainism

• Digambara Terapanth — Faithscore 67/100
• Digambara — Faithscore 66/100
• Svetambara — Faithscore 65/100
• Digambara Bisapantha — Faithscore 65/100
• Svetambara Murtipujaka — Faithscore 64/100
• Svetambara Deravasi — Faithscore 64/100
• Svetambara Sthanakvasi — Faithscore 63/100

See also

• Jainism (parent religion)
• Faithscore methodology
• All 313 religions