excommunication
Excommunication is the act of formally excluding an individual from participation and membership in a religious community, typically as a result of serious violations of its rules or teachings.
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Related Concepts (24)
- canon law
- controversies surrounding excommunication
- effects of excommunication
- excommunicable offenses
- excommunication and religious community
- excommunication and spiritual authority
- excommunication and the sacraments
- excommunication in antiquity
- excommunication in christianity
- excommunication in islam
- excommunication in judaism
- excommunication in non-religious contexts
- excommunication in the anglican communion
- excommunication in the catholic church
- excommunication in the eastern orthodox church
- heresy
- heresy hunting
- historical instances of excommunication
- papal authority
- papal excommunication
- protestant excommunication
- reasons for excommunication
- reconciliation after excommunication
- the process of excommunication
Similar Concepts
- banishment
- edict of expulsion
- excommunicado
- exile
- expulsion
- expulsion from a country
- expulsion from a religious institution
- expulsion from a social group or circle
- expulsion or exclusion of individuals from religious institutions based on their beliefs
- ostracism
- outcast
- religious censure
- religious exclusion
- shunning
- social exclusion