Religious Order
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A Religious Order is a organization within a religious group who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion
- Example(s):
- a Christian religious order: The Franciscans, the Jesuits, the Dominicans, the Benedictines, the Carmelites, and the Trappists.
- a Buddhist religious order: The Shaolin monks, the Tibetan monks, and the Japanese Zen monks.
- a Hindu religious order: The swamis, the sadhus, and the sanyasins.
- a Islamic religious order: The Sufis, the Dervishes, and the Naqshbandis.
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- See: Religion, Community, Theocracy, Clergy.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religious_order Retrieved:2023-9-10.
- A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice. It is usually composed of laypeople and, in some orders, clergy. Such orders exist in many of the world's religions.