Religious identity is one's senese of belonging to a religious community and/or culture.

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Religions are collections of beliefs, practices, and meaningful places/items/people that provide an understanding of the supernatural, spirituality, and transcendence. 

Religion

- Race
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Sex
- Sexual Orientation/Sexuality
- Religion
- (Dis)ability status
- Social Class

Examples of Social Identity Categories

Arweck, E. & Nesbitt, E. (2010). Young people's identity formation in mixed-faith families: continuity or discontinuity of religious traditions? Journal of Contemporary Religion

Young people's identity formation in mixed-faith families: continuity or discontinuity of religious traditions?

- Abrahamic religions
- East Asian religions
- Indian Religions
- Indigenous/folk religions
- Traditional African religions
- Iranian religions
- New religious movements
- Classical religions

Categories of Religions

Shared practices across religions

Religious Identity

The belief in one or more gods or deities.

Theism

Mythology is the study of myths; can also refer to a body of myths from a particular culture or geographic region. The primary focus is on stories the culture believed to be true to explain the universe and humanity.

Mythology

Child nodes contain references for religion.

References for Religion

- Doctrine
- Cult
- New Religious Movement

Religious Terminology

Scholars have not reached a consensus on whether religious groups help induce contentious collective action or help keep social peace and stability. As such three main points are often disagreed on.

1. Do religious doctrines and values make religious groups more or less likely to participate and lunch collective contention? 
2.  Do religious groups reflect and/or reinforce politically-relevant divisions that could affect which party or government group is in charge (possible regime change)?
3. Do religious groups' organizational structures facilitate or prevent contentious collective action?

Religions: Contentious Collective Action

Socially constructed groupings of people that are defined by shared physical or biological characteristics. 

Race (as a Social Identity)

Gender can be defined as socially constructed characteristics of women, men, people outside the expected binary. Some examples being norms, roles and relationships among and between groups of women and men.



Gender is a nonexplanitory measure, meaning gender can not be counted as the cause of a difference in population statistics. Learned behaviors or differences in physicality, among other things, can be counted as explanitory information.

Gender

Sex can be defined as the biological and physiological characteristics of a male or female individual. These characteristics include reproductive organs, chromosomes and hormones.

A social class is a group of individuals that share similar economic positions based on income, occupation wealth and education.

Social Class

Disability status refers to a person’s disabilities or lack thereof. A disability status refering to a lack of disabilities may include: able bodied, temporarily able bodied, neurotypical.

Disability Status

Sexual orientation (or sexuality) has multiple dimensions and is a person's identity in relation to the gender(s) they are physically and/or emotionally attracted to. It concerns an individuals romantic, emotional, and/or erotic attraction towards others (or the absence of).

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