I think he mean monastic. While catholicism was quite capable of war and purging, and some forms of Buddhism also were, individual monastic sects rarely were.
Monastic religions have the problem of being non-interactive though, I'd rather see religion get buffed by either being militaristic or passivistic and have one make control easier when it is the dominant faith, and one increase troop recruitment. The other option would be a centralized/decentralized set, which is closer to the division in europe between the decentralized and dogmatically diverse protestants and the centralized and organized catholics.
