Forms of Religious Belief
While it is popularly conceived that religions each have identifiable and exclusive sets of beliefs or creeds, surveys of religious belief have often found that the official doctrine and descriptions of the beliefs offered by religious authorities do not always comport with the privately held beliefs of those who identify as members of a particular religion. A broad classification of the kinds of religious belief is documented below
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