| Anomy | An absence or loss of social cohesion, shared values, and/or solidarity |
| Doctrinal religion | A religion characterized by verbalized doctrine and routinized ritual, whose content is transmitted through semantic memory |
| Eschatology | Doctrine on end-times and an afterlife |
| Folk religion | A religion whose sacral locus resides in its community |
| Imagistic religion | A religion characterized by a nonverbal, iconic mode, whose content is transmitted through affective memory |
| Magic religion | A religion concerned with attaining benefits for the present world |
| Soteriology | Salvation doctrine |
| Universal religion | A religion whose sacral locus resides in individual salvation |
| World-rejecting religion | A religion whose object lies beyond the present world |
| World-accepting religion | A religion that does not negatively contrast the present world with another |