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.

Unstructured

These are highly individualistic traditions, in which each person is an independent 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.

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.


Connections to science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology seem to be rather indirect. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography can be connected. Anthropology including social foundations, demography, and physical anthropology may be useful. Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of people on the environment may possibly be connected. 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.Particular groups will be useful.	Links to other sites: Not yet developed.
Culture Material culture including industril technology, building technology, foostuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technlogy, and other artifacts can be connected. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy may be connected.. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, may be useful. Cultural events including miscellanous events, meetings, holidays, and disasters may be connected. Other Institutions There are also connections to families. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools will be useful. Economics including practices, industries, and economic organization will be connected. There is a strong connection to government, including law, government activity, government structure, and particular governments. Other Religion. This will also be connected to religious belief and practice. Particular religions will provide examples. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism tends toward the highly organized. Asiatic religion, paganism, and secularism will also provide examples. Sociology Social structure and change is important. Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be considered. Social types including hunting and gathering, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial peoples can be connected. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular social changes such as the Agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution and industrial revolution will be useful. Particular communities can also be identified. These include Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City. Peoples are also being examined. Particular nations include Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Western civilization including peoples of Russia, Anglic peoples including the United States, Latin peoples including those of Brazil can be considered. Asiatic peoples including those of Japan can be connected. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples including those of China can also be considered. Southeast Asia including peoples of Indonesia can also be considered. African peoples including those of Nigeria may be useful. American Indian peoples including peoples found in the United States and Brazil can be considered. History Traces of religious organization can be found from prehistory, but more evidence is available from antiquity. Along with other aspects of religion, this developed in classical and medieval times, although it is difficult to generalize about early classical, late classical, early medieval, or late medieval times. In modern times, there has been an increasing trend toward the less structured form of organization. Details of the 16th century are not yet present. 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, early 1990s, and late 1990s can be connected. The early 21st century including recent events of the early 2000s can be examined. Events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 can be connected. Current events of the late 2000s, including 2006 will be useful. Events of 2007 including the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter can be considered. Events of 2008 can be considered. The first quarter, second quarter with April, May, and June, and third quarter with July, August, and September can be cnnected. The future is obscure.

Connections to science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology seem to be rather indirect. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography can be connected.

Anthropology including social foundations, demography, and physical anthropology may be useful. Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of people on the environment may possibly be connected. 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.Particular groups will be useful.

Links to other sites: Not yet developed.

Culture

Material culture including industril technology, building technology, foostuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technlogy, and other artifacts can be connected. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy may be connected.. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, may be useful. Cultural events including miscellanous events, meetings, holidays, and disasters may be connected.

Other Institutions

There are also connections to families. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools will be useful. Economics including practices, industries, and economic organization will be connected. There is a strong connection to government, including law, government activity, government structure, and particular governments.

Other Religion. This will also be connected to religious belief and practice. Particular religions will provide examples. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism tends toward the highly organized. Asiatic religion, paganism, and secularism will also provide examples.

Sociology

Social structure and change is important. Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be considered. Social types including hunting and gathering, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial peoples can be connected. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular social changes such as the Agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution and industrial revolution will be useful.

Particular communities can also be identified. These include Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City.

Peoples are also being examined. Particular nations include Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, and Ethiopia.

Western civilization including peoples of Russia, Anglic peoples including the United States, Latin peoples including those of Brazil can be considered.

Asiatic peoples including those of Japan can be connected. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples including those of China can also be considered. Southeast Asia including peoples of Indonesia can also be considered.

African peoples including those of Nigeria may be useful.

American Indian peoples including peoples found in the United States and Brazil can be considered.

History

Traces of religious organization can be found from prehistory, but more evidence is available from antiquity. Along with other aspects of religion, this developed in classical and medieval times, although it is difficult to generalize about early classical, late classical, early medieval, or late medieval times.

In modern times, there has been an increasing trend toward the less structured form of organization. Details of the 16th century are not yet present. 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, early 1990s, and late 1990s can be connected.

The early 21st century including recent events of the early 2000s can be examined. Events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 can be connected.

Current events of the late 2000s, including 2006 will be useful. Events of 2007 including the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter can be considered. Events of 2008 can be considered. The first quarter, second quarter with April, May, and June, and third quarter with July, August, and September can be cnnected. The future is obscure.