Building on a range of several approaches to religion, I adopt a multifaceted perspective to argue that religions tend to evolve in a transformational relationship between two opposing manifestations of theological, organizational, and political systems. This morphodynamic transformational analysis is grounded in the structural models of political and religious functions, on the assumption that religion and morality can be conceptualized as a twofold phenomenon, deriving from two separate, opposed but complementary ways. These ways are conveyed in the processes of the definition and the practice of orthodoxy and subversive theology, as illustrated in the history of early Christianity in the Late Roman Empire, Protestantism in Reformation Europe, and the trials and tribulations of Bektashism, a dervish group of Sufism and Shiite Islam in Anatolia and the Balkans. This way of seeing things makes it possible to understand that a hierarchical conception of the divine in a religious context corresponds to an egalitarian ideology in human society, just as an ecclesiastical hierarchy seeks to control monotheistic and unified theologies in support of a hierarchical social, moral, and political order. The ambivalent character of religion and morality ultimately corresponds to a transformational opposition between unified and hierarchical conceptions of divinity, respectively supporting either order-questioning epistemologies or socio-cultural orderings.