Studies in the field of sociology of religion, sociologists of religion dealing with categories about religious groups searched for various social factors beyond religious‐ ideological factors and they also developed single models in addition to these with multi‐factors. Religious ideal types developed by Weber, his pupil Troeltsch and Niebuhr as well as Johnson and Yinger are certainly products of Christian tradition based on sociologists’ religious experiences in their own societies. However, it should be noted that Church‐Sect typologies forming two poles of the scala are sociological analysis tools. Major criterion in categorization of religious organizations is the tensions and interaction between religious movements with different representations and patterns and their social environment.