Institutionalize Religions

Separation of Church and State

INSTITUTIONALIZE RELIGION
Institutionalize Religion

• An institutionalized or organized religion is called a church. Unlike religious

traditions, organized religions have beliefs and rituals which are formally
established and systematically arranged.

• Religions become institutionalized when they have the following elements, also
referred to as the five Cs of organized religion.
5c’s of Organize Religion

• Cult

• Creed

• Code

• Community of Believer

• Community Service
Cult

• Cult is literally the "care" (Latin cultus) owed to deities and to

temples, shrines, or churches. Cult is embodied in ritual and
ceremony.

• Cult is the set of rituals and sacred places, items, and objects,
religious practices that believers do and adhere to. It usually refers
to some supernatural, superhuman, or transcendental power or
promise that attracts followers. The beginning of religion usually
starts with the cult.
4 Types of Cult

• Individualistic Cult

• Shamanistic Cult

• Communal Cult

• Ecclesiastical Cult
Individualistoc Cult

Individualistic Cult. Individuals have a relationship with one or more

supernatural powers who serve as guardians/protectors.
Individualistic Cult. No known culture where individualistic cult form
entire religion.
Shamistic Cult

Part-time religious practitioner, uses religion to heal, to divine, usually

on the behalf of a client.
Communal Cult

Elaborate set of beliefs and practices; group of people arranged in clans

by lineage, age group, or some religious societies; people take on roles
based on knowledge, and ancestral worship.
Ecclesiastical Cults

Dominant in agricultural societies and states; are centrally organized

and hierarchical in structure, paralleling the organization of states.
Typically deprecates competing individualistic and shamanistic cults.
Creed

Creed. As the cult expands and develops, the members are questioned
and challenged from the outside. They also need to assure the next
generations that their message will be transmitted in its original form.
Thus members of an organized religion are compelled to come up with
a written set of beliefs that would unite all members. This is their
profession of their faith.
Code

Code. As the organization of the community of believers progress through

time, it cannot be prevented that some organizational issues and processes
need to be systematized. They need to come up with a set of standard
processes, organizational procedures and laws that would govern the whole
membership. Questions pertaining to the organizational structure of the
church, what constitutes the church hierarchy, what constitutes the laity and
other things need be answered in legal form. This is the code of the church.
Community of Believers

Community of Believers. All individuals who adhere to the

set of beliefs of a certain religion are members of that
religion’s community of believers.
Community Service

Community Services are the things that the church does for its
members and for the outside world. These include such
activities as having regular services for the believers, putting
up schools and hospitals, and doing humanitarian services,
among other things.
CHARACTERISTIC OF INSTITUTIONALIZE
RELIGIONS...
Characteristic of Institutionaloze Religions

1.) WIDE-SCALE RELIGION CLOUT

The number of individual affiliated with this religious institution is immerse that it
crosses political and international borders and cuts across social status.

2.) HIERARCHICAL LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP

Followers of this type of faith system are related to socio-political post within the
system, which provides ranking and status.This implies that access to the divine may
not be given to every members but is a privilege of a select few. The decisions for the
welfare of the religious group are also made by those who hold power while members
are expected to follow them.
Characteristic of Institutional Religions

3.) CODIFIED RITUALS

Processes of interacting with the divine and with fellow members are
guided by written rules and regulations that have the power of the
law, such that imposition of sunctions.
Separation of Church and State
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE

• The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential

concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious
organizations and the nation state. Conceptually, the term refers to the
creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church–state
separation) and to disestablishment, the changing of an existing, formal
relationship between the church and the state.
• In a society, the degree of political separation between the church and the civil
state is determined by the legal structures and prevalent legal views that define
the proper relationship between organized religion and the state. The arm's
length principle proposes a relationship wherein the two political entities interact
as organizations independent of the authority of the other. The strict application
of secular principle of laïcité(secularity) is used in France, while secular
societies, such as Denmark and the United Kingdom, maintain a form of
constitutional recognition of an official state religion.
• The philosophy of the separation of the church from the civil state parallels the
philosophies of secularism, disestablishmentarianism, religious liberty, and
religious pluralism, by way of which the European states assumed some of the
social roles of the church, the welfare state, a social shift that produced a
culturally secular population and public sphere.[3] In practice, church–state
separation varies from total separation, mandated by the country's political
constitution, as in India and Singapore, to a state religion.
Reporters:
1. Yvonne Angela Perez
2. Norhaima Sampulna
3. Grace Angela Sajulga
4. Angela Senopera
5. Valerie Suguitan