Communities

Communities is the largest group under Religious Organization and Structure, holding monastic orders, Sufi tariqas, Buddhist nikayas, Hindu sampradayas, Afro diasporic houses such as the Ile and Terreiro, and other collective bodies through which a tradition organizes its members. Community is the atlas's own comparative label rather than a term every tradition uses of itself; a Benedictine order and a Sufi order share a page here for what they structurally are, not because either would describe itself that way.