ABSTRACT
Academics have suggested a number of ways of categorizing religious systems. In Volume 1, a reasonably simple division of four types was given: family religions, tribal religions, state religions, universal religions. The financing of modern religious organizations has apparently necessitated the direct involvement of those organizations in certain areas of business. Religious groups such as the Baptists or, more particularly, the Salvation Army, which in their early formative years would have eschewed the whole idea of business investments, have now become enmeshed in the commercial world. Again it is necessary to stress the fact that these categories are conceptual, and in a sense a little artificial when related to actual religious systems. No system is completely world-transforming, but this idea does express one of the primary features of some religious movements. In Islam, the religion of Muhammad, violence was at first forbidden, and conversion was to be accomplished by persuasion.
