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abandoning their affiliation with Christianity and therefore may not consider themselves fully Hindu or Buddhist, nor do they consider themselves fully Christian as much as strict adherents. This would not be the same as pantheism as they may not feel any affiliation to say islam. They may class themselves as Christian-Buddhist or Advaita-Christian or just simply spiritual but not religious. They may pray but not meditate or vice versa or both and they may benefit from a wide range of scripture and they may attend both Church and temple.
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and church authority; issues such as the biblical interpretation, the authority of apostolic succession, eschatology, and papal primacy often separate one denomination from another. Groups of denominations often sharing broadly similar beliefs, practices and historical ties are known as branches of
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is a generic term for a distinct religious body identified by traits such as a common name, structure, leadership and doctrine. Individual bodies, however, may use alternative terms to describe themselves, such as church or fellowship. Divisions between one group and another are defined by doctrine
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Multi-denominational may also refer to a person's faith, in that their belief or affiliation crosses over formal boundaries that strict adherents would not consider. For instance, someone may have been raised Protestant but find Buddhist or Hindu scripture or practice to be helpful without fully
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events include religious portions led by representatives from several religious denominations to be as inclusive or representational as possible of the expected population or audience. For example: the Sunday
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Military organizations that do not have large numbers of members from several individual smaller but related denominations will routinely hold multi-denominational religious services, often generically called
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lines, with several smaller movements alongside them. This threefold denominational structure is mainly present in the United States, while in Israel the fault lines are between the religious Orthodox and the
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support to its members who may belong to any of many different religions or denominations. Many of these chaplains, particularly those serving with the
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The movements differ in their views on various issues. These issues include the level of observance, the methodology for interpreting and understanding
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or other large secular organizations, are specifically trained to minister to members of many different faiths, even faiths with opposing religious
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Jewish religious movements, sometimes called "denominations" or "branches", include different groups which have developed among
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that operates under a common name and tradition, among other activities. The term refers to the various
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event that includes several religious denominations from sometimes unrelated religious groups. Many
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whose population is nearly more than 0.5% of the world's Muslim population,
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The community currently numbers around 15 million spread around the world
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The Deoband Madrassah Movement: Countercultural Trends and Tendencies
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Identifiable religious subgroup with a common structure and doctrine
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The term "multi-denominational" may describe (for example) a
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Larry DeVries; Don Baker & Dan Overmyer (January 2011).
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from ancient times. Today, the main division is between the
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Muzaffar Husain Syed, Syed Saud Akhtar, B D Usmani (2011).
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Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jamaʻat: History, Belief, Practice
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populations in Europe, North America, the Far East and
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Islam and the Veil: Theoretical and Regional Contexts
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Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East
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Sociological classifications of religious movements
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Index

Denominational

Catholicism
Protestant
Orthodoxy
Christians
Sunni Islam
Shia Islam
Unaffiliated
Vaishnavism
Shaivism
Shaktism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Folk religion
religion
Christian denominations
Eastern Orthodox
Catholic
Protestantism
Judaism
Karaite Judaism
Orthodox
Conservative
Reform
Reconstructionist
Sunni
Shia
schools of jurisprudence
schools of theology

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