during the Roman Empire, constantine, who was the emperor of the empire, had a major impact on Christianity because he was christian. religion is always associated with the social world. as for the hierarchy bishops, priests, ministers, apostles all were important and then came the military or the common peoples
Émile Durkheim was the sociologist who emphasized that individual religions arise from and express the values of their societies. He believed that religion serves to reinforce social cohesion and reflects the collective consciousness of a society.
Atheism is the disbelief in God, not an organized religion or really a religion at all so it doesn't have or need a hierarchy.
In Thailand, a Therevada country, the religeous hierarchy is also a significant part of the political heirarchy. The two are intertwined.
No
Europeans mostly study (practice) the catholic religion.
Religion
The Europeans brought Christianity to Australia.
No such thing, man made - organized religion, the apostolic church had no hierarchy.
The caliphs/emirs/sultans and the scholars and judges
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Sumerian citystates were originally theocracies.
religion