DENOMINATIONAL GROUPS |
Uniqueness: A group of adherents who profess what they deem to be a unique set of beliefsContemporary major religions have all emerged from earlier religions. The problem with strictly historical classification schemes is that they end up grouping denominations together which share a common ancestry, but which are now quite different.
Loyalty: A group of adherents who give their primary religious loyalty to that religion
Autonomy: A group of adherents who independently manage their own affairs without reliance on other religions
Coherence: A group of adherents who use their own culture, traditions, forms of organization in their religious practice
Continuity: A group of adherents who acknowledge a common historical lineage
Congregation or Church (Protestant)
Parish (Catholic)
Ward (Latter-day Saints)
Synagogue or Temple (Jewish)
Coven or Circle (Wiccan)
Local Assemblies (Baha’i)
Gurdwara (Sikh)
A subdivision of a religionDenominational Family (Presbyterianism)
An alliance of denominations that at an earlier point in history were a single movement or religious bodyDenomination or Body (Presbyterian Church, USA)
An administrative organization that represents (by serving or orchestrating) participating congregationsCongregation (Oakview Presbyterian Church)
An associational unit of adherents who gather as stipulated by doctrines and rituals
Liberal Protestants
United Church of Christ (Congregationalist, Evangelical and Reformed, Reformed United Church of Christ, United Church of Christ)
Presbyterians
Lutherans
Christians (Disciples of Christ) -- Christian Disciples, Christian, Central Christian, Disciples of Christ, First Christian
Northern Baptists
Reformed --
Hungarian Reformed, Christian Reform, Dutch Reformed, First Reformed, Reformed,
Grace Reformed
Churches of Christ
Evangelicals/Fundamentalists -- Evangelical Congregational, Independent Bible, New Testament Christian, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Eden Evangelist, Plymouth Brethren, United Brethren, United Brethren in Christ, Christ in Christian Union, Open Bible, Covenanat, Evangelical, Evangelist, Evangelist Free Church, Salvation Army, Wesleyan, Wesleyan Methodist-Pilgrim, Evangelical Covenant, Mission Covenant, Swedish Mission, Fundamentalists
Nazarenes -- Holiness (Nazarene), Nazarenes
Pentecostals/Holiness -- Church of Prophecy, Apostolic Faith, Witness Holiness, Church of God in Christ, Church of God in Christ Holiness, Full Gospel, Four Square Gospel, Holy Roller, Holiness, Church of Holiness, Pilgrim Holiness, Pentecostal Church of God, Pentecostal, Pentecostal Holiness, Holiness Pentecostal, Sanctified, Sanctification, United Holiness
Assemblies of God
Churches of God
Adventists -- Advent Christian, Seventh Day Adventist
Black Protestants
Northern Baptists
Southern Baptists
Jehovah's Witnesses
Christian Scientists -- Christian Science, Religious Science
Unitarian-Universalists
-- Unitarians, Universalists, Unitarian-Universalists