denomination

Examples of denomination in the following topics:

• Religious Denominations

  • Denominations often form slowly over time for many reasons.
  • Consequently, different denominations may eventually form.
  • In other cases, denominations form very rapidly, from a split or schism in an existing denomination, or if people share an experience of spiritual revival or spiritual awakening and subsequently choose to form a new denomination.
  • In Christianity, non-denominational institutions or churches are those not formally aligned with an established denomination or those that remain otherwise officially autonomous.
  • Some non-denominational churches explicitly reject the idea of a formalized denominational structure as a matter of principle, holding that each congregation is better off being autonomous.

• Religion

  • Methodists and Lutherans (two moderately formal Protestant denominations) tend to have about average SES.
  • Variations in SES across denomination reveal a correlation between religious affiliation and social class.
  • On the other hand, income, and therefore social class, is related to an individual's denomination.
  • This is dramatically higher than average; the next highest-earning denomination is Unitarianism at $56,000.
  • Explain how social class relates to religious affiliation, denomination and religiosity

• Widespread Belief

  • The Protestant denominations encompass a wide array of religious beliefs.
  • That is, there are various denominations within Protestantism including Evangelicals, Methodists and Baptists.
  • Protestant denominations accounted for 51.3%, while Roman Catholicism, at 23.9%, was the largest individual denomination.
  • Today, most Christian denominations in the United States are divided into three large groups: Evangelicalism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
  • Christian denominations that do not fall within either of these groups are mostly associated with ethnic minorities, i.e. the various denominations of Eastern Orthodoxy.

• The Church-Sect Typology

  • The denomination lies between the church and the sect on the continuum.
  • A denomination is one religion among many.
  • Most of the well-known denominations of the U.S. existing today originated as sects breaking away from denominations (or Churches, in the case of Lutheranism).
  • Cults, like sects, can develop into denominations.
  • But given their closer semblance to denominations than to the cult type, it is more accurate to describe them as denominations.

• The Ecclesia

  • Churches can be contrasted with denominations, which do involve competition between religions.
  • 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.

• The Christian Church

  • Since the Protestant Reformation, most Protestant denominations interpret "catholic," especially in its creedal context, as referring to the Protestant concept of an eternal, invisible church of Christ and the Elect.
  • State churches are organizational bodies within a Christian denomination, given official status or operated by a state.
  • State churches are not necessarily national churches in the ethnic sense of the term, but the two concepts may overlap in a nation state where the state boundary largely corresponds to the distribution of a single ethnic group defined by a specific denomination.
  • State churches, by contrast, may also be minority denominations which are given political recognition by the state.

• Ecumenism

  • Interfaith dialogue can occur between different religious denominations that come together and work for a common purpose within their communities.
  • As a term, it usually only refers to predominantly Christian denominations and churches separated by doctrine, history, and practice.
  • Despite many disagreements over ecumenism and how to approach interfaith dialogue, there exists a sizable group of Orthodox Christians who are vehemently opposed to any kind of interfaith dialogue, whether with other Christian denominations or with religions outside Christianity.

• Catholicism

  • ., with the Catholic Church the single largest religious denomination in the United States.
  • It is the largest single religious denomination in the U.S., comprising about 25% of the population.
  • By 1850, Catholics had become the country's largest single denomination.

• Protestantism

  • There are different kinds of Protestant denominations such as Methodists and Baptists, which are both Christian.
  • The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists, became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century.
  • When their discontent could not be contained, forceful black leaders followed what was becoming an American habit, and they formed new denominations.
  • Today, the NCC is a joint venture of 35 Christian denominations in the United States.

• Religion and Other Social Factors

  • Among Christian denominations, as one moves away from the established, traditional churches (e.g., Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal) toward newer, less traditional ones (e.g., Assembly of God, Pentecostal) the proportion of women members relative to men increases...
  • In fact, since many major denominations emphasize women's submission to god and men, many religious traditions may aid feminine socialization associated with developing submissive, nurturing, and subordinate social roles.
  • Roughly 50% of the major denominations in the U.S. today do not allow women to be ordained or otherwise serve in ways that are equal to men.
  • Denominations that do not allow female ordination include: Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptists, and Mormons.