religious affiliations

Church or temple ties

Religious affiliations are the organized faiths, denominations, or spiritual traditions a person identifies with or belongs to.

Forms and surveys commonly ask about religious affiliation to gather demographic information: The census included questions about religious affiliations.

Someone may have multiple affiliations, switch affiliations, or claim none at all.

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lapsed Catholic · Zoroastrianism · Islam · Confucianism · Jainism · Protestantism · Sunni Islam · Hinduism · Rastafarianism · Shinto · Mysticism · Santería · Buddhism · Judaism · Sikhism · Theravada Buddhism · Wicca · Mahayana Buddhism

Opposites
belief orientation

religious affiliationsatheism

Rejection of deities

secularism · irreligion · nonbelief · agnosticism · freethought

institutional attachment

religious affiliationsunaffiliated

Not formally connected

unchurched · disaffiliation · nondenominational · spiritual but not religious · apostasy

basis of worldview

religious affiliationsempiricism

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