Cometan, often known in the field of religious freedom scholarship as Brandon Reece Taylorian, is an English philosopher, doctoral researcher, writer, advisor and specialist on freedom of religion or belief, and the founder of Astronism, a new religious movement belonging to the Astronic tradition. Cometan is currently engaged in PhD level research in the filed of religious freedom to explore his theory of recognitionism, the notion that systems for recognising religious and philosophical groups need specified attention in how they come to impact both positively and negatively the human right of freedom of religion or belief.