Religious Organization


Religious organization refers to the structure of churches and denominations. These may include unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured varieties.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Institutions Religion

Religious organization refers to the structure of churches and denominations. These may include unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured varieties.

Structured organization

This form of organization is more highly centered and unified, with a recognized priesthood that exercises authority in matters of belief and practice.

Fragmented

This form of organization is composed of multiple allied groups, sharing some elements of belief, practice, and tradition, but in which each group is free to adopt variations.

Unstructured

These are highly individualistic traditions, in which each person is an independent authority in matters of belief and practice.


History Prehistory Early prehistory including the Pliocene, Early Pleistocene, early mid Pleistocene, late mid Pleistocene, and late Pleistocene might be connected.Middle prehistory including the 5th decamillennium BC, 4th decamillennium BC, 3rd decamillennium BC, and 2nd decamillennium BC can be connected. Late prehistory including the early 8th millennium BC, late 8th millennium BC, early 7th millennium BC, late 7th millennium BC, early 6th millennium BC, and late 6th millennium BC might be connected.	Links to other sites: Not yet developed.
Antiquity The 5th millennium BC including the early 5th millennium BC, early mid 5th millennium BC, mid 5th millennium BC, late mid 5th millennium BC, and late 5th millennium BC can be connected. The 4th millennium BC including the early 4th millennium BC, early mid 4th millennium BC, mid 4th millennium BC, late mid 4th millennium BC, and late 4th millennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, early mid 3rd millennium BC, mid 3rd millennium BC, late mid 3rd millennium BC, and late 3rd millennium BC can be connected. The 2nd millennium BC including the early 2nd millennium BC, early mid 2nd millennium BC, mid 2nd millennium BC, late mid 2nd millennium BC, and late 2nd millennium BC can be connected. The early 1st millennium BC including the 19th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be connected. Classical and medieval history Early classical times including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical times including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected. Early medieval times including the 6th century CE, 7th century CE, 8th century CE, 9th century CE, and 10th century CE can be connected. Late medieval times including the 11th century CE, 12th century CE, 13th century CE, 14th century CE, and 15th century CE can be connected. Modern history The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late-mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected. Details of the 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century are not yet present. In the 20th century, examination of the early 20th century, early-mid 20th century, and mid 20th century, may be useful. So far I lack detail for the late-mid 20th century including the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s. In the late 20th century, the early 1980s, late 1980s and early 1990s can be connected. The late 1990s including 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 can be connected. Early 21st century Recent events of the early 2000s can be examined. Events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 with the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter and 2005 with the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter can be connected. Current events of the late 2000s, including 2006 with the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter will be useful. Events of 2007 including the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter with October, November, and December can be considered. Events of 2008 can be considered. The first quarter with January, February, and March, the second quarter with April, May, and June, and the third quarter with July, August, and September can be connected. The fourth quarter including October and November can be connected. Events of 2009 can be connected. Events of 2010 including those of the first quarter 2010, second quarter 2010, and third quarter 2010 can be connected. The fourth quarter 2010 including events of October 2010, November 2010, and December 2010 can be considered. The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected. The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 including 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected. February 2011 including 2011 week 6, 2011 week 7, 2011 week 8, 2011 week 9, and 2011 week 10 can be connected. March 2011 can be connected. The second quarter 2011 including April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 can be connected. Future The near future down to next month (Novermber 2008 and December 2008), next quarter, and next year can be considered. The middle future and far future are obscure. Sociology Peoples of the world Particular nations include France, UK, Italy, South Korea, Burma, Ukraine, Colombia, South Africa, Argentina, Spain, Sudan, and Tanzania. Western civilization including peoples of Germany can provide examples. Anglic peoples including the United States, Latin peoples including those of Mexico can be considered. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast European peoples including those of Russia can be connected. Asiatic peoples including those of Thailand can be connected. Middle Eastern peoples including Iran can be considered. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples including those of China and Japan can also be considered. Southeast Asia including peoples of Vietnam can also be considered. Peoples of the Southeast Asian archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected. African peoples including those of Congo DR may be useful. Eastern African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected. American Indian peoples including peoples found in Mexico can be considered. Middle American Indian peoples found in the Southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples of Brazil can be considered. North American Indian peoples of the United States can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples and Western North American Indian peoples can be connected. Communities These include Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City. Social structure and change Social change including can be connected. Particular social changes such as the agricultural revolution will be useful. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movmements, early iron age movments, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The Industrial revolution including early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected. Social types including hunting and gathering, horticultural societies can be connected. Industrial society can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be considered. Other Institutions Other Religion Particular religions will provide examples. Abrahamic religion including Islam, and Judaism tends toward the highly organized. Christianity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism can be connected. Islam can be connected. Asiatic religion, paganism, and secularism will also provide examples. This will also be connected to religious practice and belief . Government Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including International law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected. Economics Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical, building and construction, extraction and manufacturing, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and consumption can be connected. Education Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. Families Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected. Culture Behavioral culture Cultural events including miscellanous events, meetings, holidays, and disasters may be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theatre, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building related occupations, and food related occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, clothing and dress, living and dwelling, and vital customs can be connected. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, and mathematics may be connected. Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic might be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foostuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technlogy, and other artifacts can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups will be useful. Human geography including Asiatic geography, European geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography is likely to be usfeful in examining religious organization. Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of people on the environment may possibly be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, births, deaths, and migration can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interactions, and social presentation can be connected. Personal studies Biography can be connected. Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavior patterns, mind, and behavioral elements can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected. Science Biology including biohistory, ecology, systmatics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances might be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, modern physics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.

Early prehistory including the Pliocene, Early Pleistocene, early mid Pleistocene, late mid Pleistocene, and late Pleistocene might be connected.Middle prehistory including the 5th decamillennium BC, 4th decamillennium BC, 3rd decamillennium BC, and 2nd decamillennium BC can be connected. Late prehistory including the early 8th millennium BC, late 8th millennium BC, early 7th millennium BC, late 7th millennium BC, early 6th millennium BC, and late 6th millennium BC might be connected.

Links to other sites: Not yet developed.

Antiquity

The 5th millennium BC including the early 5th millennium BC, early mid 5th millennium BC, mid 5th millennium BC, late mid 5th millennium BC, and late 5th millennium BC can be connected. The 4th millennium BC including the early 4th millennium BC, early mid 4th millennium BC, mid 4th millennium BC, late mid 4th millennium BC, and late 4th millennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, early mid 3rd millennium BC, mid 3rd millennium BC, late mid 3rd millennium BC, and late 3rd millennium BC can be connected. The 2nd millennium BC including the early 2nd millennium BC, early mid 2nd millennium BC, mid 2nd millennium BC, late mid 2nd millennium BC, and late 2nd millennium BC can be connected. The early 1st millennium BC including the 19th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be connected.

Classical and medieval history

Early classical times including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical times including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected. Early medieval times including the 6th century CE, 7th century CE, 8th century CE, 9th century CE, and 10th century CE can be connected. Late medieval times including the 11th century CE, 12th century CE, 13th century CE, 14th century CE, and 15th century CE can be connected.

Modern history

The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late-mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected.

The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected.

Details of the 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century are not yet present.

In the 20th century, examination of the early 20th century, early-mid 20th century, and mid 20th century, may be useful. So far I lack detail for the late-mid 20th century including the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s.

In the late 20th century, the early 1980s, late 1980s and early 1990s can be connected. The late 1990s including 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 can be connected.

Early 21st century

Recent events of the early 2000s can be examined. Events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 with the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter and 2005 with the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter can be connected.

Current events of the late 2000s, including 2006 with the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter will be useful. Events of 2007 including the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter with October, November, and December can be considered.

Events of 2008 can be considered. The first quarter with January, February, and March, the second quarter with April, May, and June, and the third quarter with July, August, and September can be connected. The fourth quarter including October and November can be connected. Events of 2009 can be connected.

Events of 2010 including those of the first quarter 2010, second quarter 2010, and third quarter 2010 can be connected. The fourth quarter 2010 including events of October 2010, November 2010, and December 2010 can be considered.

The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected. The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 including 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected.

February 2011 including 2011 week 6, 2011 week 7, 2011 week 8, 2011 week 9, and 2011 week 10 can be connected. March 2011 can be connected.

The second quarter 2011 including April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 can be connected.

Future

The near future down to next month (Novermber 2008 and December 2008), next quarter, and next year can be considered. The middle future and far future are obscure.

Sociology

Peoples of the world

Particular nations include France, UK, Italy, South Korea, Burma, Ukraine, Colombia, South Africa, Argentina, Spain, Sudan, and Tanzania.

Western civilization including peoples of Germany can provide examples. Anglic peoples including the United States, Latin peoples including those of Mexico can be considered. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast European peoples including those of Russia can be connected.

Asiatic peoples including those of Thailand can be connected. Middle Eastern peoples including Iran can be considered. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples including those of China and Japan can also be considered. Southeast Asia including peoples of Vietnam can also be considered. Peoples of the Southeast Asian archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected.

African peoples including those of Congo DR may be useful. Eastern African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected.

American Indian peoples including peoples found in Mexico can be considered. Middle American Indian peoples found in the Southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples of Brazil can be considered. North American Indian peoples of the United States can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples and Western North American Indian peoples can be connected.

Communities

These include Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City.

Social structure and change

Social change including can be connected.

Particular social changes such as the agricultural revolution will be useful. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movmements, early iron age movments, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The Industrial revolution including early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected.

Social types including hunting and gathering, horticultural societies can be connected. Industrial society can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected.

Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be considered.

Other Institutions

Other Religion

Particular religions will provide examples. Abrahamic religion including Islam, and Judaism tends toward the highly organized. Christianity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism can be connected. Islam can be connected. Asiatic religion, paganism, and secularism will also provide examples. This will also be connected to religious practice and belief .

Government

Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including International law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical, building and construction, extraction and manufacturing, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and consumption can be connected.

Education

Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including miscellanous events, meetings, holidays, and disasters may be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theatre, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building related occupations, and food related occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, clothing and dress, living and dwelling, and vital customs can be connected.

Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, and mathematics may be connected. Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic might be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, engineering science, and measurement can be connected.

Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foostuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technlogy, and other artifacts can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups will be useful. Human geography including Asiatic geography, European geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography is likely to be usfeful in examining religious organization. Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of people on the environment may possibly be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, births, deaths, and migration can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interactions, and social presentation can be connected.

Personal studies

Biography can be connected. Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavior patterns, mind, and behavioral elements can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected.

Science

Biology including biohistory, ecology, systmatics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances might be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, modern physics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.