Religious activities generally need some infrastructure to be conducted. For this reason, there generally exist religion-supporting organizations, which are some form of organization that manages:
An Islamic religious organization in Johor, Malaysia.
The separation of church and state or separation of religion and state is a philosophical and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organization
Religious organization
…supported by the government. See state religion. In some countries, the government is prohibited by law from establishing or supporting religions by separation of church and state, though there may be exceptions to such rules. Religions are thus necessarily supported by private organizations, generally funded by those who attend…
John Locke, English political philosopher, argued for individual conscience, free from state control.
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, whose letter to the Danbury Baptists Association is often quoted in debates regarding the separation of church and state
H. B. Higgins, proponent of Section 116 in the Australian pre-Federation constitutional conventions
Rui Barbosa had a large influence upon the text adopted as the 1891 Constitution of Brazil.