Religious community

Religious community may refer to:

• Church (congregation), a Christian organization or congregation that meets in a particular location
• Confessional community, a group of people with similar religious beliefs
• Institute of consecrated life, an association of faithful in the Catholic Church to enable men or women who publicly profess the evangelical counsels by religious vows or other sacred bonds
• Religious identity, the sense of group membership to a religion and the importance of this group membership as it pertains to one's self-concept
• Religious intentional community, a residential community with a shared religious identity designed to have a high degree of group cohesiveness and teamwork
• Religious order, a subgroup within a larger confessional community with a distinctive high-religiosity lifestyle and clear membership

See also

• Religious group (disambiguation)