Religious community
a religious community or also a religious community is an organization, which aims at the joint practice of a religion. In the older German national church right , affected by the historical theory by the collegial system, also the designation church society was common.
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to Christianity
Christian religious communities starting from a certain size as church are designated. Churches, to which large parts of the population of a country belong, are called people church.
other religions
thoseDiffers to self and foreign designations for non-Christian larger religious communities depending upon religion.
sparkling wines/newreligious movement
smaller religious communities become - all the same whether like a Christian or non calls traditionally sparkling wines. The use of the term becomes from the members of these communitiesfrequently as discriminating against felt. Also the absence of adequate demarcation criteria is criticized. In recent time therefore than alternative designation the term of the newreligious movement was established.
financing
religious communities can by different models finance itself. Beside freiwilligen donationsthe members is there the model of the church tax (z. B. at present in Germany) and the model of the mandate tax (z. B. in Italy).
