This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Max Weber's sociological study of religion treats a state's formal relationship to religious authority as one of the clearest, most documentable facts a society can carry about how it organizes power, since a formal establishment, an official church, a state supported clergy, a legally privileged tradition, is a specific institutional arrangement that can be traced through law and administration rather than inferred from belief alone.
That institutional focus matters because establishment and disestablishment have both moved in real, documented historical episodes, a colony's state church losing its formal legal privilege after independence, a monarchy's established church persisting for centuries after most of the surrounding society has stopped actively practicing it, and each such change is itself a historical event with causes worth recording rather than a simple, steady drift from religious to secular governance.
A state entry that records only a jurisdiction's present arrangement, without recording how and when that arrangement was reached, risks presenting as timeless a legal relationship that in fact has its own specific, datable history, the same caution Weber's own sociological method applies to religious institutions generally: describe the arrangement precisely as it presently stands, and separately record how it got there.