What is a religious denomination?
Q: What is a religious denomination?
A: A religious denomination is a subset or subgroup within a religious belief system that has shared traditions, a common name, and an identity.
Q: Which religions have denominations?
A: Several Christian denominations such as Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and different kinds of Protestantism have denominations. Four branches of Judaism and the main branches of Islam also have denominations. In Hinduism, the major deity or philosophical belief system functions as the identifier of a denomination.
Q: What are some Christian denominations?
A: Some Christian denominations include Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Pentecostal, among others.
Q: Which religions have branches?
A: Judaism and Islam have branches or subgroups within them.
Q: What are the four branches of Judaism?
A: The four branches of Judaism are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist.
Q: What are the main branches of Islam?
A: The main branches of Islam are Sunnism, Shi'ism, Quranism, Ibadism, Sufism, and Muwahhidism.
Q: What are some Hindu denominations?
A: Some Hindu denominations include Shaivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism, Smartism, and Halumatha.
