Religious community may refer to: *

Church (congregation) A church (or local church) is a religious organization or congregation that meets in a particular location, often for Christian worship, worship. Many are formally organized, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, are served by cler ...

, a religious organization or congregation that meets in a particular location *

Confessional community A confessional community is a group of people with similar religious beliefs. In the Ottoman Empire, this allowed people to be grouped by religious confession as opposed to nationality or ethnicity, which was more consistent with the existing so ...

, a group of people with similar religious beliefs *

Institute of consecrated life An institute of consecrated life is an association of faithful in the Catholic Church canonically erected by competent church authorities to enable men or women who publicly profess the evangelical counsels by religious vows or other sacred bond ...

, a Catholic association bound by vows *

Religious identity Religious identity is a specific type of identity formation. Particularly, it is the sense of group membership to a religion and the importance of this group membership as it pertains to one's self-concept. Religious identity is not necessarily th ...

, the sense of membership in a religious group and its importance to one's self-concept *

Religious intentional community file:TangoMonastery.jpg, Tango Monastery, Bhutan, thumb A religious intentional community is a residential community with a shared religious identity designed to have a high degree of group cohesiveness and teamwork. A religious community is a gro ...

, an intentional community with a shared religious identity *

Religious order A religious order is a subgroup within a larger confessional community with a distinctive high-religiosity lifestyle and clear membership. Religious orders often trace their lineage from revered teachers, venerate their Organizational founder, ...

, a group of people who live apart from society as an act of religious devotion

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