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
• The Canon of Medicine, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
• The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, a 1994 book by Harold Bloom

Collections or lists

• 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 rule 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, among various Jewish and Christian communities
  • Chinese Buddhist canon, used in East Asia
  • Jewish Bible canon, another name for the Tanakh
  • Pāli Canon, used in the Therevada Buddhist tradition
  • Daozang, the Taoist canon, about 1400 texts collected around the 4th century
  • 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

See also

• Canaan, a region in the Ancient Near East
• Cannon (disambiguation)
• Canonical (disambiguation)
• Canonization (disambiguation)
• Canyon (disambiguation)
• Kanon (disambiguation)
• Standard (disambiguation)