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[Five chickens]

There was recently some violence in my fort, and as a result there are some important cleaning tasks that need to get done.  There is some important mining that I'm waiting on.  But these jobs remain inactive while my morons pray, meditate, attending tanning demonstrations, etc.  Is there anything I can do, or am I just screwed?  I think I may have built too many shrines and guilds.

[Mobbstar]

Are any burrows active?  (Either directly or via civilian alert)

Are their current jobs pink (with an exclamation mark at the end)?

You could temporarily unassign the temples and guildhalls to force them out.

[PatrikLundell]

The most obvious culprits I can think of is burrows (as Mobbstar mentioned) and locked doors/raised drawbridges (in order to contain the fighting).

You're unlikely to be screwed technically (but failure to negate the cause would still screw you, of course).

[Five chickens]

Are their current jobs pink (with an exclamation mark at the end)?

Only the jobs involving them leading a demonstration, worshipping, socializing, etc.  I have two burrows defined, but no citizens are assigned to either of them.

Actually, it's an exaggeration to say that none of them are doing anything, but there are vast lists of jobs that are inactive.

How hard is it to remove a temple or guild designation and then restore it later?  Would that mess anything up?  Thank you for your responses.

[PatrikLundell]

Removing the zone designation is trivial, and it's never caused me any problems. I definitely recommend against removing the temple/tavern/library/guild entity, though, as that has cause trouble in the past. If you remove the zone, you end up with a temple(etc.) that doesn't have any zone associated with it, and it thus does nothing. You can then easily make a new zone and associate it with the retained entity. I'm not sure is removal of a temple/guild zone will cause unhappiness as a result of the entity losing its room value, though (the temple zones I've removed in the past have been temporary extra ones, not the primary one).

[Shazial]

How hard is it to remove a temple or guild designation and then restore it later?  Would that mess anything up?  Thank you for your responses.

You can either completely remove a zone with i-x-X, or then you can remove the assignment attached to the zone with i-l-Remove assignment. The game will remember the name of the guild or temple location and you can reassign it later, as long as you just remember which zone was where. I'm not 100% sure if it'll immediately interrupt any prayer or meditation going on, or if they'll still finish it before moving onto another job.

One thing it can probably mess up is if you are in the process of filling an agreement to build a temple or a guild, that is forgetting to re-enable the location before the deadline (if you haven't met the criteria yet).

For the vital mining operations you can try and increase the priority of the job by re-designating it with a higher priority. Urists tend to get their booties to the job as soon as possible if you set something with priority 1 (except maybe tree cutting.. dumb loggers taking forever to do that).

For constructions you could try to suspend and unsuspend it and see if it'll shake the priority order a bit. Could also disable any other job from a handful of dwarves unrelated to the construction you want done, and then re-enable them once someone picks up the slack.

[muldrake]

There was recently some violence in my fort, and as a result there are some important cleaning tasks that need to get done.  There is some important mining that I'm waiting on.  But these jobs remain inactive while my morons pray, meditate, attending tanning demonstrations, etc.  Is there anything I can do, or am I just screwed?  I think I may have built too many shrines and guilds.

Sometimes it's entirely fine to take off a month or so in game time and not do anything and see if a logjam clears itself up.  I was reminded of this once when I had a fort that had sunk below 5 fps and everything I was trying to do was never happening.

Then I drank several beers while playing but, more importantly, fell asleep for about 12 hours.  When I woke up, more stuff had happened than in my previous week of play.  Sometimes you just need to leave dwarves alone.