Faith-based community

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A faith-based community is a community with members who all believe in the same religious concepts, or at least they did when it was founded. Many faith-based communities are communes, although this is not a requirement. An example of faith-based communities is Amish country in the US. Also, in 1846-1847, many Mormons migrated westward to establish a faith-based community in Utah. Some people include Israel and Iran as faith-based communities, but both cases bear closer resemblance to a theocracy (the latter more prominently; both Israeli and Iranian law are based on tenets of respective faiths, but there is less of a coercive element in the former and more in the latter).

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