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Religious order

A religious order is a subgroup within a larger confessional community that has members who lead a contemplative lifestyle devoted to prayer and service. Religious orders often trace their lineage from their founders and have a text describing their lifestyle called a rule of life. Such orders exist in a number of the world's religions and their…

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Religious order

Nodes157
Edges156
Triples142
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012739
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related to Lutheran tradition · 34
Religious order → After, Also, Amelungsborn Abbey, Augustine's House, Benedictine Lutheran, Bursfelde, Bursfelde Abbey, Christ, Ebstorf Abbey, Father Arthur Kreinheder, Germany, Loccum Abbey, Lutheran, Lutheran Christian, Lutheran Churches, Lutheran Franciscans, Michigan, Monastery, Negenborn, Order
related to External links · 17
Religious order → Abbot Gasquet, Catholic, Contemplative Men's Monasteries, Contemplative Women's Monasteries, DigitalVocationGuide, England, Full Text, Illustrations, Media, Religious, Religious Orders, The Augustan SocietyList, United StatesList, United StatesVocationNetwork, VISION, Wikimedia CommonsList, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Anglican tradition · 16
Religious order → Anglican, Anglicanism, Church, Constitution, England, English, For, In, King Henry VIII, Little Gidding, Oxford Movement, Religious, Roman, Rule, The, With
related to Methodist tradition · 13
Religious order → Deaconesses, Deacons, Flame, Great Britain, MDO, Ministers, Order, Regular, Since, The Methodist Church, The Methodist Diaconal Order, The Order, World Methodist Council
related to Jehovah's Witnesses · 12
Religious order → Among, Bethel Family, Globally, Governments, In, Jehovah's Witnesses, Male, Order, Special Full-time Servants, While Jehovah's Witnesses, Witnesses, Worldwide Order
related to Sufis · 12
Religious order → Almost, Arabic, God, Islamic, It, Members, Muhammad, Muslim, Shaikhs, Such, Sufism, Tariqas
related to Buddhism · 11
Religious order → Buddhism, Ch'an, Chinese Buddhist, Hsu Yun, In Buddhist, King Mongkut, Order, Rama IV, Shaolin, Thailand's Dhammayuttika, Zen
related to Other traditions · 10
Religious order → Africa, Cults, Due, England, Moonies, Organization, Ron Hubbard, Scientology, Scientology's Sea Org, South America
related to Catholic tradition · 7
Religious order → Among, Catholic Church, Church, Holy Orders, However, Religious, Unless
related to Anabaptist tradition · 5
Religious order → Anabaptist, Bruderhof, Hutterites, Some Protestant, These

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religious orders order members life church communities lutheran jehovah's also saint community rule catholic methodist witnesses monks clergy men century

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Religious orderis asubgroup within a larger confessional community that has members who lead a contemplative lifestyle devoted to prayer and service0.90text
Scientologyinstance oforders are not as visible as in other well-organised religions.Cults and coercive groups0.80text
Moonies often rely heavily on devout religious orders as a tactic to indoctrinateinstance oforders are not as visible as in other well-organised religions.Cults and coercive groups0.80text
control their followersinstance oforders are not as visible as in other well-organised religions.Cults and coercive groups0.80text
Religious orderrelated to Anabaptist traditionSome Protestant0.60section
Religious orderrelated to Anabaptist traditionAnabaptist0.60section
Religious orderrelated to Anabaptist traditionThese0.60section
Religious orderrelated to Anabaptist traditionHutterites0.60section
Religious orderrelated to Anabaptist traditionBruderhof0.60section
Religious orderrelated to Anglican traditionReligious0.60section
Religious orderrelated to Anglican traditionEngland0.60section
Religious orderrelated to Anglican traditionKing Henry VIII0.60section

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