Organized religion

[1] James further comments that the essential elements of "institutional religion" are "worship and sacrifice, procedures for working on the dispositions of the deity [i.e.] theology, and ceremony and ecclesiastical organization".

Due to their structured, standardized, and easily proliferated form, organized religions comprise many of the world's major religious groups.

[citation needed] In the modern era, the definition of the term 'religion' is becoming increasingly opaque, making the task of defining 'organized religion' difficult.

"[2] Furthermore, Max Weber's prominent definition of a religion includes the idea of a 'Church', not necessarily in the Christian formulation, but insisting on the notion of an organized hierarchy constituting a palpable religious body.

[3] The Abrahamic religions are all largely considered organized (including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and the Baháʼí Faith).

Priests lay their hands on the ordinands during a Roman Catholic rite of ordination . The Catholic Church , the largest Christian denomination , is an example of an organized religion.