Religious Organization

(noun)

Religious activities generally need some infrastructure to be conducted. For this reason, there generally exist religion-supporting organizations, which are some form of organization that manage the upkeep of places of worship, e.g. mosques, prayer rooms, other similar edifices or meeting places, and the payment of salaries to priests, ministers, or religious leaders. In addition, such organizations usually have other responsibilities, such as: the formation, nomination, or appointment of religious leaders, the establishment of a corpus of doctrine, the disciplining of priests or other people with respect to religious law, the determination of qualification for membership, etc.

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Examples of Religious Organization in the following topics:

  • Religion and Social Support

    • According to many social science studies, psychological well-being is positively correlated with religious engagement.
    • Surveys by Gallup, the National Opinion Research Center, and the Pew Organization conclude that spiritually committed people are twice as likely to report being "very happy" than the least religiously committed people.
    • There is now extensive research suggesting that religious people are happier and less stressed than their non-religious counterparts.
    • Certain features of religious practice may facilitate greater well-being for members.
    • Surveys by Gallup, the National Opinion Research Center and the Pew Organization conclude that spiritually committed people are twice as likely to report being "very happy" than the least religiously committed people.

  • The Ecclesia

    • Ecclesias are different from churches because they typically must compete with other religious voices in a community.
    • Churches typically tolerate no religious competition, and serve as the guardians and guides of spiritual life for a particular group of people.
    • Ecclesias are also typically not the sole religious body in a particular societal space.
    • State churches are organizational bodies within a Christian denomination that have been given official status by a state, or are directly operated by a state.
    • An ecclesial community is, in Roman Catholic terminology, a Christian religious group that does not meet the Roman Catholic definition of a church.

  • Social Correlates of Religion

    • The correlation between higher rates of happiness and religious affiliation has been demonstrated by several studies.
    • Some research suggests that both non-religious and religious meaning systems can be quite effective when it comes to managing death anxiety, and that the latter have a few additional advantages.
    • Surveys by Gallup, the National Opinion Research Center and the Pew Organization conclude that spiritually committed people are twice as likely to report being "very happy" than the least religiously committed people.
    • Some research suggests that both non-religious and religious meaning systems can be quite effective when it comes to managing death anxiety, and that the latter have a few additional advantages.
    • Identify what might be a tension in understanding highly religious nations and highly religious people

  • The Religious Right

    • By the 1980s, the Religious Right made substantial gains in United State politics, as conservative Democrats were alienated by their Party's support for liberal social views.
    • As Ronald Reagan campaigned for President in 1980, some of his strongest supporters were members of the Religious Right, including Christian groups like the Moral Majority, 61% of whom voted for him.
    • Notable leaders and groups within the Religious Right are Robert Grant's advocacy group Christian Voice, Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, Ed McAteer's Religious Roundtable Council, James Dobson's Focus on the Family, and Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
    • Under this leadership, the new Religious Right combines conservative politics with evangelical and fundamentalist teachings.
    • One of the most well-known organizations of the Right is the Christian Coalition of America which was begun by religious broadcaster and political commentator Pat Robertson.

  • Religion

    • Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices, and organizational forms of religion, using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.
    • Agents of socialization differ in effects across religious traditions.
    • Parental religious participation is the most influential part of religious socialization–more so than religious peers or religious beliefs.
    • The biggest predictor of adult religiosity is parental religiosity; if a person's parents were religious when he was a child, he is likely to be religious when he grows up.
    • Secular people converted to religion and religious people became secular.

  • Women and Church Governance

    • Women constituted the majority of converts and participants in the Second Great Awakening and played an important informal role in religious revivals.
    • Church membership and religious activity gave women peer support and a place for meaningful activity outside of the home.
    • Though they typically held no formal leadership roles, women became very important informally in the process of conversion and in the religious upbringing of their children through family structure and through their maternal roles.
    • Antebellum reform in areas such as women's rights was affected not only by political enthusiasm, but also by religious or spiritual enthusiasm.
    • Assess the role of women in the religious revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

  • Organized Labor

  • The Team and the Organization

  • Partition and Religious Tensions

  • What is Organizational Behavior?

    • Organizational behavior is the field of study that investigates how organizational structures affect behavior within organizations.
    • Organizational behavior complements organizational theory, which focuses on organizational and intra-organizational topics, and complements human-resource studies, which is more focused on everyday business practices.
    • Organizational studies seek to control, predict, and explain.
    • Organizational behavior can play a major role in organizational development, enhancing overall organizational performance, as well as also enhancing individual and group performance, satisfaction, and commitment.
    • Organizational behavior also deals heavily in culture.