religious establishment
Place of worship
A religious establishment is a church, synagogue, mosque, or other institution organized around worship and religious practice.
In legal and political contexts, establishment of religion refers to government endorsement or funding of a particular faith—what the First Amendment prohibits: The court ruled the policy violated the separation of church and state.
The phrase can also describe the dominant religious institutions within a society, often implying traditional authority or influence: He challenged the religious establishment on matters of doctrine.
- churchPlace of Christian worship
- house of worshipReligious service venue
- templeSacred worship structure
- mosqueIslamic house of worship
- cathedralBishop's principal church
stained glass · clergy · holy orders · congregation · parish · diocese · monastery · convent · pulpit · altar · pew · hymnal · prayer service · Sunday mass · vestments · tithe · collection plate · doctrine
- church-statechurch-state, separation, church-state separation, national church, state church
- Secularismsecular humanism, secular state, separation of church and state, church and state, secularization
- State ChurchesChurch of England, state church, national church, Church of Scotland, head of church
- state religionnational church, state funding, theocracy, Church of England
religious establishmentsecular state
Government separate from religion
civil authority · secular society · secularism · laity · secular humanism
religious establishmentfolk religion
Traditional community-based spiritual practices
spiritual but not religious · private devotion · mysticism · house church · underground church
religious establishmentseparation of church and state
Constitutional religious neutrality principle
disestablishment · religious pluralism · free exercise · secular state · wall of separation
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