religious affiliation

Denominational identity declared

Religious affiliation is the religion, denomination, or faith community a person belongs to or identifies with.

Forms and surveys ask about religious affiliation to gather demographic data: She listed her religious affiliation as Lutheran.

The term encompasses both formal membership and looser identification: His religious affiliation is Catholic, though he rarely attends Mass.

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Buddhism · Judaism · born again · Sikhism · Mormonism · Shinto · Zoroastrianism · church membership · faith community · house of worship · Pilgrimage · Meditation · Mysticism · sect · denomination · Jainism · Pantheism · conversion

Opposites
belief system alignment

religious affiliationatheism

Rejection of deities

irreligion · nonbelief · secularism · non-religious · agnosticism

institutional membership

religious affiliationunaffiliated

Not formally connected

unchurched · disaffiliation · non-denominational · spiritual but not religious · non-practicing

identity disclosure

religious affiliationnone

Not a single one

undeclared

Family

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