ORGANIZED RELIGION
Dictionary entry overview: What does organized religion mean?
• ORGANIZED RELIGION (noun)
The noun ORGANIZED RELIGION has 1 sense:
1. an institution to express belief in a divine power
Familiarity information: ORGANIZED RELIGION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ORGANIZED RELIGION (noun)
Meaning:
An institution to express belief in a divine power
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
organized religion; religion; faith
Context examples:
he was raised in the Baptist religion / a member of his own faith contradicted him
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)
religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)
established church (the church that is recognized as the official church of a nation)
Shinto (the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan)
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)
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)
Buddhism (a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha)
Taoism (religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu)
Hindooism; Hinduism (the predominant religion of India; characterized by a caste system and belief in reincarnation)
Hebraism; Jewish religion; Judaism (Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud)
cult (adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices)
