Consensus Meeting Polity

Consensus meeting polity is the governance form recorded in this atlas for religious bodies in which business is decided by the gathered meeting seeking unity, without clergy. Wikipedia describes consensus decision-making as a group decision-making process in which participants work together to develop proposals for actions that achieve a broad acceptance, which is the method this form uses. In this atlas the entity stands for the governance form itself, so denominations, religious orders and societies governed this way can be grouped and compared under it, while each member entry keeps its own governance facts and sources.