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ORGANIZED RELIGION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An institution to express belief in a divine power
Example:
a member of his own faith contradicted him
Synonyms:
faith; organized religion; religion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("organized religion" is a kind of...):
establishment; institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)
Domain member category:
canonise; canonize; saint (declare (a dead person) to be a saint)
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
confirm (administer the rite of confirmation to)
covenant (enter into a covenant)
deliver; redeem; save (save from sins)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organized religion"):
Christian church; church (one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship)
Hebraism; Jewish religion; Judaism (Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud)
Hindooism; Hinduism (the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal)
Taoism (religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu)
Buddhism (a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha)
Khalsa (the group of initiated Sikhs to which devout orthodox Sikhs are ritually admitted at puberty; founded by the tenth and last Guru in 1699)
Church of Scientology; Scientology (a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment)
Shinto (the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan)
established church (the church that is recognized as the official church of a nation)
religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)
cult (followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader)
cult (followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices)
