Group dynamics applies to any group of people. Although the basics of group dynamics has a common focus. Groups of people are typically viewed to form around something common to that group. For example, psychologists are a group of people brought together around pyschology. This does not mean that the larger group of pyschologists are exactly the same as smaller subgroups within psychology. The group, as a larger community, has a set of rules, rituals and authorities (the essential structure of a religion). Subgroups fill-in more specifics of the religion. For example both Freudians and Jungists are psychologists - but they are not the same. What one can see with a brief study of psychology - is a rejection of religion making psychology an oxymoron. This means that an active psychologist, who has rejected what he considers to be religion, has not rejected the religion of pyschology - and is still religious. Although he does not view psychology as a religion. The reason being, the common view of religion only sees a church (or temple) as the primary symbol of religion - an odd historical develpment of the modern era (the late 1800s). Ironically, other religions, beyond the standard western view - are not viewed as religions. This includes atheism, secularism (science), neo-paganism and western adapted hinduism and buddhism. In recent years we can add sportsism, celebritysm, shoppingism (mallists and antiquists), neo spiritual feminism (including; neo-yogists, young godessists, mother godessist and grandmother goddessist ), and environmentalism. As well, among the religious elders we can include pop culturalists, gamists and sub-culturalists.

The result is with modern advances in technology - or modern society is no less religious than the old society from which it came. The it appears that religion has a life line (a history) as old as man. Historically, there are two basic religions; polytheism and monotheism. Prior to 300AD poytheism was primary and dominant and after 300AD monotheism was primary and dominant. Today we are faced with religions that are quasitheistic (sort of god oriented). Even atheism (the most extreme of anti-god and anti-religious) has adopted a quasitheistic existence with a religion of itsown. Although they will strongly deny it.

Prior to 300AD we are dealing with a very different world. Anthropologists (who study tribal culture) point to primative man as being animists (the spirits of nature as gods) and shamanistic, with archeologists pointing toward developing civilization and the evolution of gods from tribal gods in to state and national gods. The support that kept tribal divine power, also evolved into the state religions of the old civilization (and passed through to today). Shamen (common known as witch doctors) were the animal spirit portal to the tribe. All divine power and intercession flowed through the shaman. As civilizations emerged, the shaman was replaced with an institution of priests, priestess and temple structures. Consequently, the head of state was then intimately related with the divine. It's this archeitecture that passed through history from ancient Egypt, through the Greeks, then the Roman and into Feudal Europe (after 1000 AD). It deminished with the advent of American individualism, and re-invented itself in the dictatorships of both Stalin and Hitler.