Congregations
Scope Note
Groups organized for common worship (e.g., kin and local groups, special cult groups, church congregations, parishes); lay organization (e.g., elders, deacons, committees); qualification for membership; admission and disciplining of members; fund raising; maintenance of place of worship; religious activities (e.g., Sunday school); secular church activities (e.g., education, welfare work, church gambling, temple money lending); recreational facilities (e.g., parish houses); etc.
- Broader Term
- 790 Ecclesiastical Organization
- Related Terms
- 346 Religious And Educational Structures
- 453 Banking
- 520 Recreation
- 525 Gambling
- 610 Kin Groups
- 620 Community
- 730 Social Problems
- 740 Health And Welfare
- 786 Ecstatic Religious Practices
- 870 Education
- Use Fors
- Banking (temple)
- Banks (temple)
- Bingo (secular church activity)
- Cargo cults (special cult groups)
- Catechism (formal religious education)
- Church bingo
- Church committees
- Church education
- Church elders (lay personnel)
- Church gambling
- Church loans
- Church wardens
- Church welfare work
- Churches (lay organization)
- Churches (secular activities)
- Cofradia (religious congregation)
- Committees (congregational)
- Confirmation (membership in a religious congregation)
- Cults (household)
- Cults (religious)
- Deacons
- Discipline (religious)
- Elders (members of lay organization)
- Excommunication (congregations)
- Fund raising (religious)
- Gambling (church)
- Ghost Dance (special cult)
- Household cults
- Instruction (religious)
- Lay organization of churches
- Lending of money (temple)
- Loans by churches
- Maintenance of religious structures
- Messianic movements (religious cults)
- Millenarian movements (religious movements)
- Money lending (temple)
- Parishes (congregations)
- Peyote cult
- Revitalization movements (special cult groups)
- Secular activities of churches
- Shrines (endowing of as charity)
- Sunday schools
- Temple banking
- Temple money lending
- Tithes
- Wardens (church)
- Identifier
- 794
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