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I can kind of see how this article differs from List of religions...So if we're going to keep the article rather than delete or merge, should we include a few words about each organization that is listed? What organizations should be listed here? Should organizations that exist exclusively as parts of an organized religion be included or excluded? Should churches that exist as legal entities be included? How should they all be grouped? Just leaving something for future editors to chew on, as I personally don't think I will be working on this article. ...but what do you think? ~ B F izz ( talk) 02:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Even though I nominated this article for deletion, I tagged it for rescue because I am not sure that it actually will be deleted. If the article isn't going to be deleted, it ought to be improved, if that can be done. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:56, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
The scope of the title "List of religious organizations" is very, very nebulous. Obviously, we should not simply copy List of religions; so the key word here becomes "organizations."
Please discuss the following points under the appropriate subsection, and modify the "answer" to the main questions of each section as you deem appropriate.
Q: What is a religious organization?
A: An organization...which...happens to be associated in some way with religion?
Q: Which ones are to be included in this list?
A: ...all of them?
Q: How do we make it clear to the reader what we are about to present?
A: ...black magic?
Q: How should we arrange this information?'
A: Group organizations by faith
I have sketched a table prototype, now in the "Miscellaneous organizations" section only. It is of course open to criticism and expansion, but let me know if you think it is a viable way to organize info. -- Cyclopia talk 23:31, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Ok, someone has deleted it. I put it here as an example:
Organization | Faith / Philosophical stance | Aim | Notes |
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Church of Reality | Philosophical realism | "[...] The Church of Reality is about the pursuit of reality the way it really is. Members commit to being intellectually honest with themselves and with others so they can cut through the mythology and focus on reality" [1] | |
High Council of B'nei Noah | Noahidism | A body of scholars for study and observance of Torah, and to help to unify the communities around the world. | |
Institute on Religious Deathcare and Spiritual Healing | Interreligious | To preserve the dignity of the dead and the rights of the bereaved. | |
Never Ending Gardens | Interreligious | Seeks to alleviate hunger in Africa by building sustainable vegetable gardens in communities to improve their diet. | |
John Templeton Foundation | Interreligious | "...to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life's biggest questions. These questions range from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity. Our vision is derived from Sir John Templeton's commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. The Foundation's motto "How little we know, how eager to earn" exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries." [2] | |
Universal Life Church | No defined doctrine | The ULC has no traditional doctrine, believing as an organization merely in doing "that which is right." | It offers anyone semi-immediate ordination as a ULC minister free of charge. The organization states that anyone can become a minister immediately, without having to go through the pre-ordination process required by other religious faiths.The ULC’s ordinations are issued in the belief that all people are already ordained by God and that the ULC is merely recognizing this fact. citation needed |
Opinions? -- Cyclopia talk 12:47, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Q: What information should be included in this list?
A: name of organization, a short description, year organized...
I have created List of religious organization sub-lists to help us with our work on this list. -- Devin Murphy ( talk) 22:01, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
The lead mentions the issue of what is a religion, but what about this?
"It should be noted that the formation of distinct religious organizations known as religious bodies (denominations) is very characteristic of the Western world and of Christianity. Many eastern religionists and many non-Christian religions do not necessarily follow this pattern. Classification into various "schools" or branches and formal affiliation with a single temple or mosque is more appropriate for most Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. Furthermore, many religionists may have no formal organizational membership or denominational identity other than as a resident of the culture, tribe or country into which they were born. The majority of Hindus and Buddhists are adherents of those religions individually (or by birth into a culture) and are do not have formal affiliation with a membership organization representing their religion. Thus, while most Hindus and Buddhists are counted by national censuses and are included in statistics for major religions and major branches of religions, most do not show up in this listing of the world's largest religious bodies." ( [1]) Peter jackson ( talk) 12:04, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
I would suggest the best way to go about this whole list would be to divide it into essentially two lists. The first list would list all the religious groups which have an article on Wikipedia and self identify as an organization by their self identified religious affiliation. So if a group is both in the case of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans a Neopagan group and a Unitarian Universalist group it would be listed with the Unitarian Universalist groups, but also with the Neopagan ones as well. The second list would list the same religious orgs as the first list but this time dived them by the type of group like, Non-profit, youth, university, media, etcetera. I would in vision further subdividing for example the Christian part of the first list by denomination like Catholic and Anglican for example. And the sections in the second list could likewise be further subdivide. Take for example under media we could subdivide it into categories like radio stations and newspapers. We could even further subdivide those subcategories into I don’t now lets say Catholic newspapers and Protestant newspapers. The first list might overlap with the List of religions and spiritual traditions a bit to much but the second list might be more unique and maybe more useful. So lets take the second list for example instead of us listing all the organizations on this parent list, I suggest it list a link to each types of org like, List of religious non-profit organizations, list of religious youth organizations, etcetera. And beside the links it would say something brief about each type like a disambiguation page would. And only one the sub-list pages would more specific info be given like in the chart suggested above. -- Devin Murphy ( talk) 20:45, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
As it is now, the list has mostly become a list of lists: should we rename it? -- Cyclopia talk 01:27, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Is this list just for current religious orgs with articles here on Wikipedia? Or do you think its scope should also include the historic religious orgs with articles here on Wikipediaones as well? I will holed off on adding the historical ones until we decide. -- Devin Murphy ( talk) 14:05, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
This lists is for directing to other Wikipedia articles/lists. None of the organisations have links to external websites on this page but are instead linked to other Wikipedia pages. This is not for users to put their website on the list to advertise it. Please see WP:PROMOTION. NZ Footballs Conscience (talk) 03:40, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Does the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy count as a religious organization? Doremon764 ( talk) 14:12, 29 March 2021 (UTC)