The 58-year-old writer admits to having scant fondness for what he calls "institutional" religion.

Indeed, the third force, and institutional religion, parted company completely.

Carr's "distrust for institutional religion" pervades much of her art.

James distinguished between institutional religion and personal religion.

The controversy over resurrection, then, proved critical in shaping the Christian movement into an institutional religion.

According to Steindl-Rast, this common core of mystical experience may be repressed by institutional religion.

The main themes of this novel include repressed sexuality, freedom from institutional religion, growing up and true love.

Others see it as a result of the erosion of other systems like institutional religion, Marxist ideology and psychoanalysis.

They intend to stay away from institutional religion and focus instead on faith and individuals.

I do not see any huge turnaround in the very depressing statistics for institutional religion.