Church, Synagogue, Mosque, and Temple Governance (Worship-Community Polity)

US worship-community governance and polity: congregational, presbyterian, episcopal, and elder-led Christian polity plus Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist analogs; church/synagogue/mosque bylaws, member vs. non-member models, congregational meetings and quorum, elder/vestry/shura/trustee structures, denominational reporting, pastor call and separation, member discipline, disaffiliation and property disputes, ecclesiastical abstention. Use when a pastor, rabbi, imam, administrator, elder chair, or vestry warden says 'redo our bylaws,' 'call a pastor,' 'leaving the denomination,' or 'quorum failed.' Not for secular boards (nonprofit-board-governance, nonprofit-bylaws-poli…