Toward a Typology of Religious Orders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2202970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E K Francis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 437-449 |
| Publication date | 1950-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/220584 |
| OpenAlex | W2079056939 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
From a sociological viewpoint two phenomena have to be distinguished: the community of religiosi and the religious order properly speaking. The former corresponds to the psychological group and the familistic or Gemeinschaft type, while the latter represents an organized group of the Gesellschaft type. The principal historical types are analyzed to show the stages from the pure community of religiosi to the fully developed order: monasticism, as a total way of life; the canons regular and military orders combining life"in religion" whit the status of priests or knights "in the world"; the friars, who tend toward a purposive organization in the service of the church; and, finally, the Jesuit order, the mature product of a long evolution, with its professional devotion to the objective institute, rationality, individualization, and depersonalization of intragroup relations
Depersonalization · Epistemology · Monasticism · Order (exchange) · Principal (computer security) · Product (mathematics) · Rationality · Renunciation · Service (business) · Sociology · Theology · Typology · Anthropology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political and Social Issues · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1965 - 2021 (57) |
| Highly cited | No |