The institution of religion is not the same thing as faith.  Faith can exist outside religious institutions (churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, ashrams, meetinghouses, congregations of a myriad of names.) Indeed, many people have reported that their faith was harmed by participation in a religious institution.  Religious institutions, like all of the institutions, have status-roles and hierarchy.  You want to give that some thought up front.  Most religious institutions have rituals and sacred rites that symbolize their core beliefs, such as belief in a deity or deities.  Religious institutions have economies.  Some religious leaders become wealthy from their status-role.  The relationships of families to religious institutions are of interest.  Sociologists have found that between the ages of 25 and 35 about half of Americans change their religious affiliation.  This can be as simple as a denomination switch, or a more total change such as becoming agnostic or atheist, or for an atheist to become churched.  Evangelism and missionary work are germane to religious institutions. 

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