Church - Religion

Religion

  • Church (building)
  • Church service, a formalized period of communal worship
  • Church music written for performance in church
  • Christian Church, the society, which according to Christian belief, was founded by Christ
    • Any of several more specific Christian denominations
      • Particular church, ecclesial communities within Catholic Christianity
      • Simple church, an Evangelical Christian movement
    • Ecclesiology, the study of the church in Christian theology
  • A religious denomination
  • State church, a religious body or creed officially endorsed by that nation's government
  • Local church, the body made up of a congregation, its members and clergy
  • Christian clergy, formal Christian religious leadership
  • Church, a sociological classification of religious movements
  • Broad church, one organization encompassing a broad range of opinion (from Anglican Church) used in politics

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    “In the latter part of the seventeenth century, according to the historian of Dunstable, “Towns were directed to erect ‘a cage’ near the meeting-house, and in this all offenders against the sanctity of the Sabbath were confined.” Society has relaxed a little from its strictness, one would say, but I presume that there is not less religion than formerly. If the ligature is found to be loosened in one part, it is only drawn the tighter in another.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)